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

THE PASSIONATE DETACHMENT 182 165 JYOTI SWAROOP (b.1939) a. Inner Jungle Series Watercolour on paper, c.1965 20.8 x 24.6 cm. (8.2 x 9.7”) b. Inner Jungle Series Watercolour on paper, c.1965 21.7 x 23.8 cm. (8.5 x 9.4”) c. Inner Jungle Series Watercolour on paper, c.1965 22 x 24.8 cm. (8.7 x 9.8”) Rs. 60,000 – 85,000 $ 1,275– 1,710) (Set of 3) 164 JYOTI SWAROOP (b.1939) Trishul Signed in English & monogram, l.l. Charcoal & Pencil on paper, c.1965 48.0 x 30.4 cm. (18.9 x 11.9”) Rs. 30,000 – 45,000 $ 640 – 950 PAPR Lot 224 HT.ND/ 28.11.99 Untitled (Set of 4) Pencil on paper, 1965 22.7 x 28 cm. ASP: Rs. 26,250/ $ 605 ($1 = Rs. 43.30) b c “ Jyoti Swaroop is a true visionary — puts down for us the calligraphy of the dance, and the veneer through which we look when we view our death and desire — the desire for death, and the positive recurrence of the death of desire. ...In these paintings which are strange but organic, and romantic, (in the truest principle of romanticism) we get the flesh of his song. ... We get also in there abstracts the nervous system of the necromancer who can see under the skin and to whom the veins of woman, or of Jodhpur marble, of the fern waste of the sun-stripped Rajasthani trees all become an eternal pattern of creative design. ... But to be able to abstract the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms and to get the essence of life in one unit of expression is a nobel undertaking — a task for the very gifted artist.” (Richard Bartholomew, in ExC. 1966 ).