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Tagore painting for sale in London

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From: India Abroad
Date: 20001124
Author:Bhatia, Shyam

Bhatia, Shyam
India Abroad
11-24-2000
Tagore painting for sale in London

A portrait of a Bengali woman painted by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore is
being offered for sale on the London art market for a record 100,000
(about $155,000).

Tagore was the first and so far only Indian to win the Nobel Prize for
Literature, in 1913. But in later life, after the age of 60, he also took
up painting and calligraphic drawings.

The 100,000 portrait is from a collection of an estimated 30 paintings
that were brought over to the United Kingdom by Tagore in 1930 and
exhibited in British cities. Most were retained by an ...

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