Christie's will auction 20 donated artworks to support the Library of Bengali Literature.
Marking its
25th year of presence in India, Christie's will auction 20 donated artworks to
support the Library of Bengali Literature, an open-ended bilingual collection
of 1000 years of the texts of Bengal area.
Published by
Columbia University Press, the Library of Bengali Literature is a new series of
English-language translations of the masterpieces of the Bengali literary
tradition. It is driven by Jnanpith recipient poet Sankha Ghosh and professors
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Thibaut d'Hubert.
It is
currently raising an endowment of $2 million to support the project, part of
which will be raised by the Christie's auction on September 11 in New York.
"The editors
have established a working list of fifty volumes, but in fact, this project is
to be seen as open-ended and entries will be welcomed from all sources, on all
kind of subjects and researched as well as edited to the highest standards of
the Columbia University Press. The first two volumes are ready to be published
as soon as funds are secured," Christie's said in a statement on
Wednesday.
On auction
will be works by artists Jamini Roy, Jogen Chowdhury, Tyeba Begum Lipi and Rina
Banerjee, among others.
In addition
to these 20, the larger auction titled "South Asian Modern and
Contemporary Art", will present more than 110 works by modern and
contemporary artists from the Indian subcontinent.
Major
artists include S.H. Raza, F.N. Souza and Bikash Bhattacharjee. A sculpture by
Mrinalini Mukherjee, whose work is currently on view in a retrospective at the
Metropolitan Museum in New York, will also be on sale.
For
Christie's, 2019 marks the 25th year of opening its first representative office
in Mumbai. Highlights of this New York auction will be on preview in Mumbai
from August 22-24. It is open to the public with continuous guided tours given
by Christie's specialists.
Source | https://www.news18.com
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