ABANINDRANATH TAGORE (1871-1951)

ABANINDRANATH TAGORE (1871-1951)
C.1900-30

Three Indian paintings, the first in watercolour and gilt on card, depicting a young girl holding a mandarin duck, signed in Bengali and with a red seal mark, 32.8cm x 23.5cm; together with a painting of an elderly man wearing a blue shawl, the reverse with pencil sketches, one possibly a self-portrait of Tagore, inscribed 'Norman Blount' on the back of the mount, 17.5cm x 13cm; the third a miniature portrait in Persian style, depicting a man sitting in a garden, holding a small cup in one hand and reading a book, mounted on paper with gold flakes, 8.2cm x 6cm; together with a print of a woman and child, the toddler climbing on a sculpture of a buffalo and with a small goat behind him, also signed Tagore in Bengali with a seal mark, 28cm x 19cm. (4)

Provenance: from the collection of Norman Blount, 1875-1930. Norman Blount was a jute broker, as well as the joint secretary (together with Abanindranath Tagore) of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, which was founded in 1907 in Calcutta, with Lord Kitchener the Society’s President.

阿巴寧哲納·泰戈爾（款，1871-1951）
1900-30年代
來源：諾曼·布朗特（1875-1930）收藏。諾曼布朗特曾是一個黃麻經銷商，與藝術家泰戈爾一起擔任了印度東方藝術協會的聯合秘書（1907年於加爾各答成立），而霍雷肖•赫伯特•基奇納元帥(1850-1916)為協會主席。