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Title
In the river Jamuna
1992
Artist
Bhupen Khakhar
India
1934 - 08 Aug 2003
About
Bhupen Khakhar was one of India's leading modern painters and lived an openly gay life in Baroda, an industrial town half-way between Mumbai (Bombay) and New Delhi. His oil paintings, watercolours and prints, influenced by Indian miniature painting and popular Indian calendar art, take no regard of perspectival accuracy and often present figures in looming, dark and anchorless spaces.
His depictions of everyday, middle-class life are humorous and irreverent. In this print we can see that the artist has drawn on the sexual ambiguity found in traditional Indian art and has placed embracing men in the context of Indian temple life and mythology.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, April 2016
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, April 2016
Details
Date
1992
Materials used
etching; printed in black ink on paper
Dimensions
49 x 49.5 cm image; 69.2 x 61.7 cm sheet
Signature & date
Signed, l.r.corner [untranslated. Gujarati script]. Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1994
Location
Not on display
Accession number
355.1994
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Bhupen Khakhar
In the river Jamuna
Shown in 1 exhibition
Exhibition history
India Songs:
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 01 Apr 1993–09 May 1993
- Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong 15 May 1993–12 Jun 1993
- Orange Regional Gallery, Orange 25 Jun 1993–31 Jul 1993
- Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra 05 Aug 1993–04 Sep 1993
- Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown 17 Sep 1993–24 Oct 1993
Referenced in 1 publication
Bibliography
Victoria Lynn, India Songs: multiple streams in contemporary Indian art, Sydney, 1993, 53. cat.no. 8