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Babu

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Babu by Lalu Prasad Shaw, tempera on board, people and portraits

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Lalu Prasad Shaw b. 1937

Babu

Tempera, 2017 · 71 × 56 cm · 28 × 22 in

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Medium: Tempera
Material: Board
Dimensions: 71 × 56 cm · 28 × 22 in
Year: 2017
Edition: Original, unique work
Signature: Signed on the front
Condition: Excellent
Certificate: Issued by the gallery, ships with the work
Framing: Unframed Black Natural oak White Antique gold
Framing is quoted on enquiry and is not part of the price.
Reference: ART-1768928194

National Art Treasure. Under the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act this work cannot leave India. It ships to Indian addresses only; a buyer outside India may still acquire it and hold it here.

About this work

Babu is painted in tempera on board, dated 2017 and sized 71 × 56 cm. It belongs to Lalu Prasad Shaw's best-known body of work, the Babu-Bibi series — small tempera portraits of Bengali gentlemen and women he began after observing sitters at a photography studio in Santiniketan, drawing on the nineteenth-century Company School and Kalighat pat painting traditions.

Lalu Prasad Shaw

Lalu Prasad Shaw was born in 1937 in Bengal. He is an artist and printmaker known for his detailed depictions of Bengali life.

8 works by this artist are available.

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