LOT 61
B. PRABHA
B. India, 1933 – 2001
Standing Female
Oil on canvas
50.5 x 41 cm
Signed on lower left
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Singapore
Sold in Tremont Auctions Boston on 7th December 2020 for US$5,000 and subsequently at Roseberry Auction London on 26th October 2021, Lot 552. Previously acquired directly from the artist
RM 20,000 – 35,000
B. Prabha was born in the village of Bela, near Nagpur in Maharashtra in 1933. Growing up in a close-knit middle class family, she studied at the Nagpur School of Art and went on pursue a Diploma in Painting and Mural Painting from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai. Although she worked mostly with oils on canvas, this modern painter did explore several media, styles and subjects before finally settling with oils as her preferred medium. Her early work was modern freestyle painting. Over time she found her own signature style. Prabha’s signature style fully evolved after her marriage to fellow artist B. Vithal in 1956, when she moved from modern abstract forms to a more decorative figuration.