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Rina Banerjee - Swing swing she was her Swamy’s sunshine while moo specks, flakes and frost flirted with her shape. The others not those who had fallen out of grace because of unfortunate race missed her but stayed though out of her way.

Rina Banerjee

Swing swing she was her Swamy’s sunshine while moo specks, flakes and frost flirted with her shape. The others not those who had fallen out of grace because of unfortunate race missed her but stayed though out of her way.

Found at Christies, New York
South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art, Lot 246
11.Sep - 11.Sep.2019
Estimate: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
acrylic, ink, and mica flakes on paper
15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.9 cm.)
Executed in 2011
Gifted by the artist to Columbia University Press

Upper estimate price exceeded by 41 %.

The work Swing swing she was her Swamy’s sunshine while moo specks, flakes and frost flirted with her shape. The others not those who had fallen out of grace because of unfortunate race missed her but stayed though out of her way. by Rina Banerjee was auctioned at Christies in New York in September 2019. It achieved a price of USD 11,250.00 (€ 10,316.37), exceeding the upper end of the estimate range by 41%. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Rina Banerjee - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work In what seemed at first a monster's colonial dream, leprechauns of amber body and agile mind blew west wondering what it would be like to leave land, ocean, bird, bear, feline and the bounty of horned beasts, to leave our nature for culture, which sold at auction in March 2013 for USD 30,000.00 (€ 23,408.24).

Oberer Schätzpreis um 41 % übertroffen

Die Arbeit Swing swing she was her Swamy’s sunshine while moo specks, flakes and frost flirted with her shape. The others not those who had fallen out of grace because of unfortunate race missed her but stayed though out of her way. von Rina Banerjee kam im September 2019 bei Christies in New York zur Auktion. Sie erzielte dabei einen Preis von USD 11.250,00 (€ 10.316,37) und übertraf damit das obere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne um 41%. Für andere Arbeiten von Rina Banerjee mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit In what seemed at first a monster's colonial dream, leprechauns of amber body and agile mind blew west wondering what it would be like to leave land, ocean, bird, bear, feline and the bounty of horned beasts, to leave our nature for culture beobachtet, die im März 2013 für USD 30.000,00 (€ 23.408,24) versteigert wurde.

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