Osian's Auction Catalogue India The Passionate Detachment | February 2001

THE PASSIONATE DETACHMENT 100 55 JAMINI ROY (1887 - 1972) National Art Treasure Portrait of Van Gogh Mixed media on cloth pasted on paper board, mid 1920s 60.0 x 46.5 cm. (23.6 x 18.3”) Rs. 400,000 - 500,000 Non-Exportable Item “ It is well known that he was also an ardent admirer of Van Gogh… It was probably the Dutch master’s splendour and raw vitality of colours that inspired Roy to select Van Gogh from among the various renowned painters of the time. Van Gogh’s world being flooded in a dazzling resplendence, his paintings too were similarly splashed with glorious hues… What Jamini Roy inherited from Van Gogh and his followers was restricted solely to the sphere of colours.” (Paritosh Sen, rpt. in CMC Art Gallery ExC . 1991).