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

THE PASSIONATE DETACHMENT 184 168 C.J.ANTHONY DOSS (b.1933) Blue Woman S/d in English, l.l. Oil on canvas, 1963 46.0 x 43.4 cm. (18.1 x 17.1”) Rs. 45,000 – 75,000 $ 960 – 1,595 167 A.P.SANTHANARAJ (b.1932) Woman S/d in English, t.r. Oil Pastels on paper, 1972 49.3 x 59.5 cm. (19.4 x 23.4”) Rs. 35,000 – 60,000 $ 745 – 1,275 “Space had been his (Santhanaraj’s) magnificent obsession from the very beginning, and sitting on the vast expanse of sands by the seaside, he would wonder about the sky, the stars and the universe that remained suspended like a mass from infinite space. His constant effort was to relate space to life and his restless pursuit emerged as nude figures with a touch of abstraction and a mass of cubic chaos. To me a painting is not important because of object motivation or its romantic impotance of form - far more important is to be governed by the atmosphere. Just as in music, so also in painting, it is the atmosphere which should be the most important obsession”. (Anjali Sircar, in LKC #32 1985 , p17).