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Lot No. 70
PARESH MAITY

b. 1965

UNTITLED (A TRIBUTE TO RAJA RAVI VARMA)
Diameter: 84 in (213.4 cm)
Oil on canvas
2013
Signed & Dated: Bottom Left

` 30,00,000 - 40,00,000 | $ 37,037 - 49,383

Provenance: Property from a collection based in New Delhi

During the last 35 years, Paresh Maity has held
88 solo exhibitions and his work that includes a
diverse ensemble of landscapes, abstracts, portraits
and figures has been widely exhibited in galleries,
museums and art fairs in India and across the globe.
Paresh Maity’s art has been collected by numerous
private collectors across the world and is also present
in public collections such as the Rashtrapati Bhawan
(President’s House, India), the British Museum
in London, the Rubin Museum of Art, New York,
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, the Oberoi
Group of Hotels, Taj Group of Hotels, Leela Palace
hotel, New Delhi, Ritz Carlton hotel in Bengaluru, ITC
Hotels, Tata Iron & Steel and Hindustan Unilever,
among many others. In 2010, he completed an
approximately 850-foot mural, one of the longest
paintings in the world for the International terminal
at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi.

Paresh Maity has been felicitated by various
national and international institutions including the
Royal Watercolour Society, London, the All India
Fine Arts and Crafts Society, British Council, and is a
recipient of one of the highest civilian awards, the
Padma Shri, from the Government of India. Most
recently in 2024, he was conferred with A Doctor
of Literature (D.Litt.) degree from Sir Padampat
Singhania University, Udaipur.