Lot 1560: BALAJI PONNA

BALAJI PONNA
(B. 1980)
When People Become Priests ...Flag Becomes Feint
signed, titled and inscribed 'Balaji Ponna When people become priests ... flag becomes feint oil & soot on canvas Triptych each 24''x 96'' inches Baroda' in English; dated '2008' (on the reverse of the middle panel)
inscribed 'Top' (respectively on the reverse and right canvas side)
oil and soot on canvas, triptych
each: 61 x 243.5 cm. (24 x 95 7/8 in.)
overall: 184 x 243.5 cm. (72 1/3 x 95 7/8 in.)
Painted in 2008

Kolkata, India, Bose Pacia Kolkata, Black Smoke: Balaji Ponna, 27 February-15 March 2009.

Bose Pacia, Black Smoke: Balaji Ponna, exh. cat., Kolkata, India, 2009 (illustrated, unpaged).

Bose Pacia Kolkata, Kolkata, India
Acquired from the above by the present owner

BALAJI PONNA
(B. 1980)
When People Become Priests ...Flag Becomes Feint
signed, titled and inscribed 'Balaji Ponna When people become priests ... flag becomes feint oil & soot on canvas Triptych each 24''x 96'' inches Baroda' in English; dated '2008' (on the reverse of the middle panel)
inscribed 'Top' (respectively on the reverse and right canvas side)
oil and soot on canvas, triptych
each: 61 x 243.5 cm. (24 x 95 7/8 in.)
overall: 184 x 243.5 cm. (72 1/3 x 95 7/8 in.)
Painted in 2008