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Lot No. 72

SOMNATH HORE
1921-2006

UNTITLED
24 x 18 in (61 x 45.7 cm)
Oil on canvas
1978
Signed & Dated: Bottom Left

` 40,00,000 - 60,00,000 | $ 48,780 - 73,170

Provenance: Property from an important collection based
in Mumbai. Originally from the Pitti Family Collection.

Somnath Hore was born in 1921 in the village of
Barama, situated in Chittagong, which is now part of
Bangladesh. Even from a young age, he engaged in
creating posters for the Communist Party, facilitated
by the party’s leader, who aided his admission
into the Government College of Art & Craft.
Between 1954 and 1967, Hore held various
positions. Initially, from 1954 to 1958, he served
as a lecturer at the Indian College of Art and
Draughtsmanship in Calcutta. Subsequently, until
1967, he fulfilled roles such as overseeing the
Graphic section at the Delhi College of Art, acting
as visiting faculty at MS University in Baroda and
leading the Graphic Art department at Kala Bhavan,
Visva Bharati. Additionally, in 1960, he joined the
Society of Contemporary Artists.