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HAREN DAS (1921 - 1993)

Born in 1921 in Dinajpur - a small town in undivided Bengal, now in Bangladesh, Haren Das took a diploma in Fine Art from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata. He..... 

Estimate: Rs 1,00,000-Rs 1,50,000 ( $1,220-$1,830 )


a) Fishing
Signed and dated 'Haren Das. 86' (lower right), inscribed 'Fishing' (lower centre) and further inscribed 'wood cut 8/15' (lower left)
1986
Woodcut on paper pasted on mount board
Print size: 8.75 x 7 in (22 x 17.7 cm)
Sheet size: 10.5 x 8.5 in (26.5 x 21.5 cm)

Eighth from a limited edition of fifteen

EXHIBITED
Between the Lines: Identity, Place and Power; Selections from the Waswo X Waswo Collection of Indian Printmaking, New Delhi: Visual Arts Gallery at the India Habitat Centre, 13 - 25 August 2012 (another from the edition)


b) Shell Girls
Signed and dated 'Haren Das. 62' (lower right), inscribed 'Shell Girls' (lower centre) and further inscribed 'Etching 19/25' (lower left)
1962
Etching on paper
Print size: 6 x 9.5 in (15 x 24.4 cm)
Sheet size: 8.25 x 9.5 in (20.7 x 24.4 cm)

Nineteenth from a limited edition of twenty-five

PUBLISHED
Paula Sengupta, The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking (Volume two), New Delhi: DAG, 2012, p. 126 (illustrated, another from the edition)






(Set of two)

These works will be shipped unframed