You Can’t Please All,was one of the iconic work of late Indian painter Bhupen Khakhar.


You Can't Please All, 1981

About You can't Please All, Rebecca Heald wrote in The Tate's official site,(2014), ''The building occupied by the naked man is painted in warmer reds and pinks, which serves to magnify the distinction between the private realm of the man’s abode and the public world outside.You Can’t Please All was painted in 1981 in Baroda, in Gujarat, India, and took five months to complete...... Khakhar believed that ‘It is ultimately the colour which determines the painting’ and he went painstaking length to achieve the colours he wanted.''

Compared to the complexities of You Can't Please All, De-Luxe Tailors is more of a straight forward work.

On 24 October, British artist Howard Hodgkin’s personal art collection was up for sale at Sotheby’s London. Noted for his treasured Indian art collection, it includes De-Luxe Tailors by Bhupen Khakhar (pictured). A work from his “trade” series in which he paints barbers, watch-menders and so on, it was gifted to Hodgkin by Khakhar, whom he counted among his friends.One can be sure the price tag attached to this work would surely be a pleasing one to the sellers!

Source : The Tate, Sothebies