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

THE PASSIONATE DETACHMENT 158 PAPR Lot 188 HT.ND/ 28.11.99 Ladies Playing Hockey Watercolour on paper 56 x 77 cm. ASP: Rs. 231,000/ $ 5,335 ($1 = Rs. 43.30) 135 K. H. ARA (1913 — 85) Gods, War & Politics Signed in English, l.r. Watercolour on paper, early 1960s 55.0 x 72.0 cm (21.7 x 28.4”) Rs. 250,000 – 325,000 $ 5,320 – 6,915 “ The exhibition at the Bombay Art Society Salon of the work of the Progressive Artists’ Group is to be noted as a landmark in the history of Bombay’s art activities… The Progressive Artists’ Group was started two years ago when Ara’s painting ‘Independence Day Procession’ was rejected by the Art Society and Francis Newton was considered as too “proletarian” in his paintings. In protest, these two with the sculptor, Bakre, and the sensitive water- colourist Raza formed the group and began holding exhibitions in the King’s Circle so that the non-arty-arty people could see.” (Jagmohan, in Souza in the Forties ExC . 1983 ). 134 FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (b.1924) a. Woman S/d in English, t.r. Pen & Ink, 1946 34.5 x 21.6 cm. (13.6 x 8.5”) b. Woman S/d in English, l.l. Pen & Ink, 1949 34.5 x 21.6 cm. (13.6 x 8.5”) Rs. 85,000 – 125,000 $ 1,810 – 2,660 (Set of 2)