Oil on board, signed at lower left, presented in the original black painted frame, retaining a 1971 exhibition pamphlet from Samudra Gallery.

SS 26.5 x 17.25 in.; DOA 28.5 x 19.25 in

Upasena was born on January 12, 1937 in Galle, the southern capital of Sri Lanka. After attaining his degree from Mahinda College in Galle, he joined the Government College of Fine Arts to study drawing, painting and sculpture. While as a student at the Government College of Fine Arts in 1958 he held his first one-man exhibition at the Colombo Art Gallery, depicting the verses of 'Sela Lihini Sandesaya' Kavya, a book of Sinhala poems comprising 108 verses. In 1959 he went to India for further studies and joined the Fine Arts Faculty (Kala Bhavan) Visva Bharathi University, Santiniketan, India, under the tutelage of Nandalal Bose and received a Diploma in Fine Arts.

$300 - 500