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Lot 4
B. C. Law (1880 - 1946)
Estimate : 7,00,000 - 12,00,000
Object Title:
Untitled
Medium:
Oil on Canvas
Signature:
Signed in English B C Law (lower right)
Object Title :
Untitled
Dimension:
26.8 x 51.2 in. / 68 cm. x 130 cm
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Bipin Chandra Law is a name that consistently comes up in connection with his contemporaries Hemen Mazumdar and Atul Bose. But beyond a mention, little is known about this artist. Law (anglicised version of Bengali name Laha) was largely a self-taught artist born in 1880. Belonging to an affluent family of landowners and businessmen, he was a socialite, art patron and collector. Law like most academic naturalists of his time left the Government School of Art after E. B. Havell and Abanindranath Tagore weeded out all western training in favour of an Oriental makeup and reconfigured their teachings on nationalistic lines, which meant a categorical refusal of the Western canons.

Law attended Ranada Gupta’s Jubile Art Academy and he was a frequent contributor in both English and Bengali to various journals including Aryavarta, Prabasi, Bharatvarsha and Manashi. Law also trained under the artist Kunjalal Chakravarty.

He was the joint president and founding member of the Indian Institute of Art and Industry, Calcutta. In 1919, he became the founder member of the Indian Academy of Fine Art and later in 1921, founder and Secretary of the Society of Fine Arts, Kolkata. Law was a fellow at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and participated in the Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924. Posthumously, his works have been included in exhibitions by modern art galleries and museums.

Law worked with both oil and watercolour and came to be known for his portraits. He assimilated naturalism with Indian sensibility. Apart from portrait and landscape, he also worked on various mythological subjects based on Ramayana, Mahabharata and other literary themes.

The artist passed away in 1946.

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