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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