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

EXPERIMENTS & EXPRESSIONISM 151 123 GOPAL GHOSE (1913 — 80) Rural Landscape with Woman S/d in English, l.r. Pastels on cardpaper, 1960 48.3 x 27.5 cm. (19.0 x 10.8”) Rs. 125,000 – 175,000 $ 2,660 – 3,725 124 GOPAL GHOSE (1913 — 80) Red Rose Signed in Devanagari, l.r. Pastels on card paper, early 1960s 37.0 x 24.2 cm. (14.6 x 9.5”) Rs. 125,000 – 175, 000 $ 2,660 – 3,725 “ With a combination of contrasting colours he (Gopal Ghose) gave a new interpretation of light and shade — totally different from what we were accustomed to. We (the students at the CGAC) were endowed with a new kind of vision to which this familiar world of nature revealed herself as something new, full of poignant mystery.” (Shyamal Dutta Ray, rpt. in Retrospective ExC. 1995 ).