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

EXPERIMENTS & EXPRESSIONISM 145 115 A.RAMACHANDRAN (b.1935) a. Christ Series: Resurrection S/d, l.c. Aquatint & Etching, 1968 17.3 x 25.3 cm. (6.8 x 10.0”) b. Christ Series: Crucifixion S/d in English, l.r. Aquatint & Etching, 1968 17.0 x 14.9 cm. (6.7 x 5.9”) 116 ARUN BOSE (b.1934) Mask Titled on reverse Colour Etching, 1960s 76 x 56.4 cm. (29.9 x 22.2”) Rs. 25,000 – 35,000 $ 530 – 745 “His figures show that he is deeply interested in the body - its form, structure, musculature and surfaces. His work reveals an original interpretation of this theme: for the forms are felt as volumes, as surfaces rippling with convexes and depths; as design rich in colour, strengthened with dark and light tones which together build up the human frame. The limbs in this style are taut and tense, crumpled or stretched, they are displayed as motifs that contain both form and emotion. The movement is not that of the figures themselves but of the pattern. The eye is led from limb to limb or suddenly confronted with contrasting squares of planar surface or of ’holes’. The figure is used as a pictorial element to span space or to accumulate into a fleshy mass. (Jaya Appaswamy, in LKC# 17 1974 , p17). b a Rs. 50,000 – 75,000 $ 1,065 – 1,595 (Set of 2) “He was one of the earliest from West Bengal to be trained at Hayter’s atelier. It is from Arun that Shyamal Dutta Ray, Sanat Kar, Sailen Mitra, and Anil Baran Saha had their first lessons in multi layer etching with differential viscosity method of colour application with rollers of differential malleability, that enables one to get multi- colour prints from a single matrix. It is from him again that they learned the techniques of the ground and aquatint affected on etching plates for textural effects and tonal variations.” (Pranabranjan Ray, in LKC #21 , 1976 , p41).