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

EXPERIMENTS & EXPRESSIONISM 161 139 H.A.GADE (b.1917) Town (in green) Signed on reverse. Oil on cardboard, 1954 75.6 x 60.9 cm. (29.8 x 24.0”) Rs. 225,000 – 275,000 $ 4,790 – 5,850 S.H. Raza had invited H.A. Gade to become one of the founding members of the Progressive Artists Group. Their friendship had begun during their days together in Nagpur, both sharing a respect for scientific logic and the need to stay true to one’s intuitive impulses.