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MARSI SUKHUMBHAND PARIBATRA, HSH PRINCESS
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(1930 - 2013)
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The portrait photograph of Marsi
Sukhumbhand Paribatra, HSH Princess
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HSH Princess Marsi Sukhumbhand Paribatra was a distinguished female artist
known for her fantasy-surrealist paintings. Her artwork often explored themes of
life and death, blending beauty and ugliness in imaginative ways. For example,
she depicted young women and flowers to symbolise life, youth, and beauty,
juxtaposed with skulls and skeletons to represent decay, death, and ugliness.
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In some pieces, Princess Marsi Sukhumbhand Paribatra used vivid imagination
to create narrative scenes. She combined animal and human elements, such as a
woman with a bird9s head, a person with a dog9s head, a cat with a human body,
and beautiful flowers forming the shape of a parrot.
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HSH Princess Marsi Sukhumbhand Paribatra was the only daughter of HRH Prince
Chumbhot of Nagor Svarga and M.R. Pantip Paribata. She pursued various fields of
study, including physics, literature, philosophy, music, and visual arts. She earned
a PhD in Literature from a university in Paris and a degree in Art History from a
university in Spain. She taught Far Eastern Art at a university in Madrid, Spain,
and Western Art History at Chulalongkorn University. Around 1959, at 30, she left
academia to study painting under the guidance of a friend of a French artist.
Her artwork
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