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

THE PASSIONATE DETACHMENT 150 PAPR Lot 172 HT.ND/ 28.11.99 Palms in Landscape Pastels on paper, early 1950s 47.5 x 36.5 cm. ASP: Rs. 178,500 122 SAILOZ MOOKHERJEA (1907 — 60) National Art Treasure Landscape Signed in English, l.r. Pastels on paper, early 1950s 27.4 x 37.3 cm. (10.8 x 14.7”) “ In his treatment of landscape he creates spaces organically by the movement of colour rather than by any clearly indicated recession. The trees evoke a fairy-tale atmosphere and provide the setting for some poetic event. Often the whole composition surges with rhythm, now delicate and grave, now tumultuous and free. His arrangements are usually asymmetric and daringly balanced…” (Jaya Appasamy, rpt. in LKA Monograph 1966 ). Rs. 225,000 – 300,000 Non-Exportable Item