LOT 57
B. PRABHA
B. India, 1933 – 2001
Standing Female
Signed on lower left
Oil on canvas
51 x 40.5 cm
Private Collection, Singapore
RM 50,000 – 90,000
“It is my aim to paint the trauma and tragedy of women”
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.