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

THE PASSIONATE DETACHMENT 102 59 ATUL CHANDRA BOSE (1898 - 1977) Portrait Study for Subhas Chandra Bose Oil on canvas, c.1946 57.2 x 19.1 cm. (22.5 x 7.5”) Rs. 150,000 - 225,000 $ 3,120 - 4,790 “Atul Bose was remarkable for his grand seigneurial portraits, but he did not over look or cast aside the common folk or the son of the soil… the last word about Atul Bose is that he will ever be regarded as a portraitist above everything else. His skill is only comparable to his contemporaries in England, in our land he was more than equal to his peers”. (Sreekumar Acharya Chowdhury, from Atul Bose, ISOA 1990 ). PAPR Lot 111 So.Lon/ 08.06.00 Portrait of Rabindranath Tagore Oil on canvas 61 x 46 cm. ASP: £ 2,400/ Rs. 162,960 (£1 = Rs. 67.90) 58 ATUL CHANDRA BOSE (1898 — 1977) Himalayan Landscape Oil on plyboard, early 1940s 49.3 x 30.5 cm. (7.1 x 10.4”) Rs. 200,000 - 250,000 $ 3,725 - 5,320