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K H Ara
(1914 - 1985)
Temptation



“Ara uses colour (almost always water colour) in a great variety of techniques from fluid watery washes to dry impasto. The unity of style and texture in individual paintings and the almost playful evolution of the colour schemes point more than anything else to the primary urges that created them; to the artist’s abiding and irrepressible joy in the act of painting.”

(Rudolf von Leyden, “Ara”, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1965, accessed...



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  Lot 18 of 85  

25TH ANNIVERSARY EVENING SALE
27 SEPTEMBER 2025
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ARTWORK DETAILS

K H Ara
 Temptation

 Circa 1940
Watercolour on paper
25.25 x 36.75 in (64 x 93.5 cm)

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Mumbai
Acquired from the above

EXHIBITED
The Bombay Art Society: 51st Annual Exhibition, Bombay: Bombay Art Society, 1942

PUBLISHED
The Bombay Art Society: 51st Annual Exhibition, Bombay: Bombay Art Society, 1942, p. 33 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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