Senaka Senanayake, Women with White Bulls (2004): The Friday Find:

21 - 28 November 2025
Senaka Senanayake, Women with White Bulls (2004), The Friday Find:

Introducing a new weekly feature from Grosvenor Gallery - The Friday Find - where we give in-depth information about one work of art, telling the back story of the artist, the context in which it was created, and any interesting provenance or technical quirks it might have.

All works listed are available to buy at the time the email goes out, so you may want to put this in your diary...

  • In Search of The Purple Orchid, Senaka Senanayake, Grosvenor Gallery and Patrimonio Gallery at Snowball Studios, Mumbai

    In Search of The Purple Orchid, Senaka Senanayake

    Grosvenor Gallery and Patrimonio Gallery at Snowball Studios, Mumbai 11 - 16 November 2024

    Senaka Senanayake has been the subject of many exhibitions at Grosvenor Gallery over the last ten years, both in London and overseas. As recently as June 2025 we exhibited 3 new canvases in our exhibition 'Crossing Borders: Modern Art from South Asia', held at Phillips in London, and prior to that, our November 2024 his exhibition 'In Search of the Purple Orchid' in Mumbai was a sell-out.

  • As is well documented, Senaka took to painting early in life, and has exhibited extensively around the world since the...
    Senaka in 1965 at the Upper Grosvenor Galleries

    As is well documented, Senaka took to painting early in life, and has exhibited extensively around the world since the early 1960s. His first show in London was held in 1963 at the Upper Grosvenor Galleries (no-relation), and his style has evolved and changed over the years, whilst remaining true to his core subject matters - elegant figuration and the beauty of the natural world.

  • Women with White Bulls was bought by a private British collector in July 2004 from the Artonia Galleries - previously...

    Women with White Bulls was bought by a private British collector in July 2004 from the Artonia Galleries - previously Sharika Galleries - at the Oberoi hotel in Colombo, and has remained safely tucked away since then in a private collection in the midlands.

     

    It is in fabulous condition and as tends to be the case, looks much better in the flesh than in the photos.  Pleasingly, we have a copy of the original purchase receipt - rarer than you might think.

     

    Charles Moore, November 2025

  • Fact sheet:
    Senaka Senanayake (b. 1951)
    Women with White Bulls, 2004
    Oil on canvas
    Signed and dated lower right
    115 x 90 cm
    45 1/4 x 35 3/8 in
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