A dense crowd of figures packed shoulder to shoulder, most of them holding up or reading open newspapers whose white sheets spread across the canvas; patches of deep blue show at the top.

Evening News

₹2,00,000

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  • Acrylic Ink on Canvas
  • 33 × 22 in (height × width)
  • Edition of 75, signed and numbered

The story behind

When we know the occasion pictured in the Evening News paintings we become fully aware of Khanna’s undemonstrative approach. The drama is implied below the surface, and because of this we sympathise with everyone’s response to the assassination and even participate in it.

Norbert Lynton, Images in My Time (2007)
Detail: Thick, scraped paint in the newspaper sheets, scored faces and red hands between them.
Detail

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