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

ABSTACT-FIGURATIVE DILEMMA 193 183 IMAMUDDIN OF THE RANTHAMBORE SCHOOL Portrait of Tiger S/d in English, l.r. Gouache on silk, 2000 99.5 x 79.0 cm. (39.2 x 31.1”) Rs. 50,000 - 75,000 $ 1,065 - 1,596 “Ranthambhore School of Art started in 1988 in Sawai Madhopur, the district town adjoining Ranthambhore National Park, with the support of Ranthambhore Foundation through a self-financed project, by a group of painters who had been making nature, forest and wildlife the main source of inspiration for their paintings. Most of the painters are from various villages around the Park…. The skill and the style of the painters reveal startling glimpses of wildlife and the surrounding magnificent forest of Ranthambhore…. The specialized knowledge that is intrinsically connected with wildlife art can be dominate colours and composition, the highly detailed and accurate depiction of an animal and it’s surrounding habitat can look like a photograph, yet a wildlife painting recreates experiences of wildlife and wild places like no photograph can hope to emulate. Wildlife art, throughout the world, has played a very important part in awakening, encouraging and sustaining concern for conservation of nature and respect for the environment. … Ranthambhore School of Art is committed to the promotion of conservation, the protection of the forest, the well-being of the environment and the saving of the tiger and all wildlife through art.” (From Ranthambore Ex.C 2000 ).