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Lot No. 44

                                                                                                                                          MRINALINI MUKHERJEE
                                                                                                                                          1949 – 2015
                                                                                                                                          UNTITLED
                                                                                                                                          10.5 x 29 x 8 in (26.6 x 73.6 x 20.3 cm)
                                                                                                                                          Bronze
                                                                                                                                          ` 8,00,000 – 10,00,000 | $ 10,000 - 12,500

                                                                                                                                          Published: ‘Mrinalini Mukherjee’ by The
                                                                                                                                          Shoestring Publisher, 2019, pg. 52.                     Cover and page of the publication.




                                                                                                                                          Mrinalini  Mukherjee  was  an  influential
                                                                                                                                          contemporary  artist  born  in 1949  in Mumbai,
                                                                                                                                          Maharashtra. She was the daughter of acclaimed
                                                                                                                                          artist Benode Behari Mukherjee and sculptor
                                                                                                                                          Leela Mukherjee and was deeply influenced
                                                                                                                                          by them to pursue art herself. She enrolled
                                                                                                                                          at the Faculty of Fine Art at M.S. University,
                                                                                                                                          Baroda, in 1965 to study Painting. Post this,
                                                                                                                                          she studied mural painting under the tutelage
                                                                                                                                          of renowned artists such as K.G. Subramanyan,
                                                                                                                                          who had himself been taught by her father. She
                                                                                                                                          graduated with a Post-Diploma in 1970. During
                                                                                                                                          her time studying under Subramanyan, she
                                                                                                                                          inculcated his love for Indian traditional art and
                                                                                                                                          using indigenous influences.















               Lot No. 43

               BALAKA BHATTACHARJEE
               b. 1974

               UNTITLED
               36 x 36 in (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
               Oil on canvas
               2021
               ` 1,00,000 – 2,00,000 | $ 1,250 – 2,500

               Signed & Dated: Bottom Left
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