Kanta, from, Balika Mela series

Object Details

• Artist

  Gauri Gill (India, born 1970)

• Printer

  Digital Solutions (New Delhi)

• Mounter

  Griffin Editions

• Edition/State

  2/3 + 1 AP

• Provenance

  2012-2013

  Gauri Gill (b. 1970) [1]

  From 2013

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from Gauri Gill through Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi, India [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See “Photograph Information Record” form completed by Gauri Gill, dated February 12, 2016, section 1.3 and 3.6, copy in object file. The “Photograph Information Record” form indicates that this object was printed in 2012 by the commercial printer, Digital Solutions, New Delhi, India.

  See also Nature Morte Art, Ltd., New Delhi, India, proforma invoice number 2013-14/20, issued by Pete Nagy, dated May 7, 2023, copy in object file.

  [2] See Arthur M. Sackler, “Acquisition Consideration Form,” approved on May 28, 2013, copy in object file.

  Research updated October 2, 2023

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Notes from the Desert: Photographs by Gauri Gill (September 17, 2016 to February 12, 2017)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Gauri Gill (India, born 1970)

• Origin

  India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art

• Type

  Photograph

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  2010s, 2000s

• Name

  Gill, Gauri

• Place

  India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Contemporary Art, Art, Portraits, Girl

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Photographs