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Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art New Bond Street, London | 24 October 2018 Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Gordon McFarlan, Andrew McKenzie, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Harvey Cammell Deputy Chairman, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Emily Barber, Antony Bennett, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, India Phillips, Matthew Girling CEO, Matthew Bradbury, Lucinda Bredin, Peter Rees, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Veronique Scorer, Robert Smith, James Stratton, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Asaph Hyman, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Graham-Campbell, Matthew Haley, Ralph Taylor, Charlie Thomas, David Williams, Edward Wilkinson, Geoffrey Davies, James Knight, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Jon Baddeley, Jonathan Fairhurst, Leslie Wright, Charles Lanning, Grant MacDougall, Rupert Banner, Shahin Virani, Simon Cottle. Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art New Bond Street, London | Wednesday 24 October 2018, 1pm VIEWING Please note: REGISTRATION ILLUSTRATIONS Sunday 21 October 11am to 3pm Telephone bidding is available only IMPORTANT NOTICE Front cover: lot 26 Monday 22 October 9am to 4.30pm on lots where the lower end Please note that all customers, Back cover: lot 121 Tuesday 23 October 9am to 4.30pm estimate is at £1000 or above. irrespective of any previous Inside front cover: lot 21 Opposite: lot 18 Wednesday 24 October 9am to 11am activity with Bonhams, are Inside back cover: lot 114 ENQUIRIES required to complete the Bidder Tahmina Ghaffar SALE NUMBER Registration Form in advance of 24941 +44 207 468 8382 [email protected] the sale. The form can be found IMPORTANT INFORMATION CATALOGUE at the back of every catalogue In February 2014 the United £30.00 Sakhshi Mahajan and on our website at www. States Government +44 207 468 5812 bonhams.com and should be announced the intention to [email protected] returned by email or post to the ban the import of any ivory BIDS specialist department or to the into the USA. 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Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Gordon McFarlan, Andrew McKenzie, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Harvey Cammell Deputy Chairman, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Emily Barber, Antony Bennett, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, India Phillips, Matthew Girling CEO, Matthew Bradbury, Lucinda Bredin, Peter Rees, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Veronique Scorer, Robert Smith, James Stratton, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Asaph Hyman, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Graham-Campbell, Matthew Haley, Ralph Taylor, Charlie Thomas, David Williams, Edward Wilkinson, Geoffrey Davies, James Knight, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. 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Islamic and Indian, Middle Eastern and South Asian Art London Tahmina Ghaffar Specialist, Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art Sakhshi Mahajan Trainee, Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art Nima Sagharchi Director, Middle Eastern, Islamic and South Asian Art’ Noor Soussi Cataloguer, Modern & contemporary Middle Eastern Art Oliver White Head of Department, Islamic and Indian Art Matthew Thomas Specialist, Islamic and Indian Art Flavia Deakin Cataloguer, Islamic and Indian Art Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art Hong Kong Edward Wilkinson Global Head Executive Director, Asia Lilia Chen Senior Administrator New York Mark Rasmussen Specialist Head of Sales Doris Jin Huang Specialist 1 JAMINI ROY (INDIA, 1887-1972) Untitled Signed in Bengali lower right Tempera on card 29.5 x 25cm (11 5/8 x 9 13/16in). £4,000 - 6,000 $5,300 - 7,900 €4,500 - 6,700 Provenance: Private Collection, Singapore; Private Collection, USA, acquired in India in the 1960s.