Patrick Procktor RA
Back Bay in Bombay - 1970
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Aquatint
This is an artist's proof, signed, aside the edition of 60 impressions
43.4 x 61.7 cm (inches: 17 x 24¼.)
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From the series 'India, Mother' - seven aquatints derived from over eighty watercolours made by the artist while in India and Nepal. He left England on 1st January 1970, going by train to Istanbul, by air to Baghdad and then Basra, and by boat to Bombay via the Persian Gulf. In his three months in India, Procktor visited Bombay, Udaipur, Jaipur, Khajuraho, Agra, Kathmandu and Calcutta, from where he flew back via Rome at the end of March.
'Light fading on the Bay, people sitting on the sea-wall further than you can see with their backs to the Bay, and on the opposite shore the Towers of Silence' (Patrick Procktor, extract from unpublished diary, January to March 1970).
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