SATISH GUJRAL (INDIA BORN 1925) PENCIL ON RICE PAPER:

SATISH GUJRAL (INDIA BORN 1925) PENCIL ON RICE PAPER:
Ca 2002. Signed and dated lower right. Image 17 ¾ inches x 23 2/4 inches. Gujral is an important Indian painter, sculpture, muralist and writer of International acclaim. In 1944 he joined J.J. School of Art. However, due to sickness he had to drop out of school and leave Bombay in 1947. In 1952 he received a scholarship to study at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City where he apprenticed under the renowned artists Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Sigueiros. Gujral was awarded India's second highest civilian honor Padma Vibhushan in 1999. PROVENANCE: Acquired by a well-known Mumbai based collector directly from the artist in 2005. Then it was inherited by a San Francisco base collector in 2010. Lastly in a Boston estate collection.