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

EXPERIMENTS & EXPRESSIONISM 169 152 K.S.KULKARNI (1916 — 94) Farmers at work Signed in English, l.c. Oil on board, early 1960s 58 x 117 cm. (22.8 x 46.0”) Rs. 150,000 – 200,000 $ 3,190 – 4,255 151 BIKASH BHATTACHARJEE (b.1940) Determination Title in English, l.l. Pastels on paper, c. 1965 44.5 x 25.1 cm. (17.5 x 9.9”) Rs. 125,000 – 175,000 $ 2,660 – 3,725 “ But, beyond the influence of Indian culture and its ethos, my horizons are universal. I am interested in the universalising of the human spirit. My concepts are not regional, tribal or spiritual and material is the matrix of my creative intent…All creativity is linked within and without. In such a scenario, what one does is to discover from the conflicting forces of this relationship, and conceptualise and perceive, through space, colour, texture and present these having digested the multi-influences…I am influenced by the Indian definition of rajas, satwa and tamas . Like tension in stringed instruments the tension in my work creates its own creative music.” (K.S.Kulkarni, rpt. in Gallerie Ganesha ExC . 1996).