Wednesday 14 June 2023
Durgabai (Indian, b. 1972), Bird, acrylic on paper, 37.5 x 30.4cm. Provenance: Private...
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Durgabai (Indian, b. 1972), Bird, acrylic on paper, 37.5 x 30.4cm.
Provenance: Private collection Germany acquired in Delhi, India from the gallery of Tulika Ke, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the artist
Lot Footnotes
Durgabai (born in 1972) is a first-generation Gond artist. She enjoyed story-telling performances in her village Barbaspur (near Patan in Madhya Pradesh) that accompanied the art of bhitti chitra, wall painting in mud houses, and decided to start creating her own paintings. The kahani parampara or story-telling tradition in her village features characters from the purani kahani such as jungle janvar, nana-nani, devi-devta, drawn from village life and the surrounding jungle.
Following her marriage to Gond painter Subhash Vyam in 1989 and subsequent move to Koti Sultanabad in Bhopal, she connected with her cousin Jangarh Singh Shyam and other folk artists within the museum space of Bharat Bhavan and started painting on paper and canvas for a contemporary urban art market. "Initially I used poster colours but now I use acrylic and fabric colours because they are fast and don't fade or come off easily." The subjects of her painting includes elements from her elaborate landscape scenery composed within a smaller canvas and therefore narrowed down to a few animals and trees.
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