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Property from a Private Collection, London Krishen Khanna (Indian, b. 1925), Untitled, man on horseback, pastel on paper mounted, glazed and in light wood frame, approx. 81 x 60cm.  Provenance: Acquired from Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai Born in 1925 in Lyallpur, Punjab, Krishen Khanna is one of South Asia’s most eminent modern masters. Having worked in banking for fourteen years, Khanna is mostly self-taught, and took up the artistic profession full-time only in his late thirties. He emigrated with his family from Pakistan to India just days before Partition, and he befriended members of the Progressive Artists’ Group while living and working in Bombay. Faithful to painting and drawing throughout his career, Khanna’s work is primarily figurative, and forms, according to Gayatri Sinha, a ‘powerful psychological engagement’ with ‘the shifting and unfolding theatre of human relationships.’ (G. Sinha, Krishen Khanna: The Embrace of Love, Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, 2005, p. 6)