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Lot 116
CHINTAN UPADHYAY (B. 1972)
ASN0001
Auction Type: Live Floor
SMART ALEC - CHINTAN UPADHYAY UNLIMITED
Watercolour on paper
Signed, dated and titled verso
Dimension: 28 x 22 in
Estimate: ₹4,00,000 – ₹5,00,000
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Born in 1972, Chintan Upadhyay completed his Masters in Fine Arts from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda in 1997. He has held a number of solo shows in India and abroad. He lives and works in Mumbai.
His above painting titled "Smart Alec" is a depiction of designer babies, their bodies painted with fragments from Rajasthan's miniature paintings. The painting is a depiction of nostalgic traditional imagery meeting cyborg in timeless zones of hyper reality.