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Lot 27
Nilima Sheikh | Squirrels

Date of Birth: 1945- Present

Medium: Serigraph

Size: 12 x 10 inches, 30.5 x 25.5 cms

Signed by: Signed 'Nilima Sheikh' on lower right

Provenance: Collection of a reputed art gallery, New Delhi

Estimate: ₹ 1,00,000 - ₹ 2,00,000

Description

Nilima Sheikh:

Born in 1945, Nilima Sheikh is a visual artist based in Baroda, India. Her paintings reminisce of traditional painters and influences of Rajput and Mughal painters. Her work focuses on displacement, longing, historical, lineage, tradition, communal violence and the ideas of femininity. Nilima creates artwork in a diverse range of forms. Those include stencils, drawings, painting, installation, large scrolls, theater painting, installation, large scrolls, theater set designs and children books installations.