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

ABSTACT-FIGURATIVE DILEMMA 197 190 SUDHIR R. KHASTGIR (1907 - 74) Woman in Rain S/ d & seal in Devanagari, t.r. Mixed Media on paper, 1959 77 x 65.5 cm. (30.1 x 25.8”) Rs. 75,000 – 125,000 $ 1,595 – 2,660 189 SUDHIR R. KHASTGIR (1907 - 74) Dancer S/d in Bengali, with seal & stamp, c.r. Pastels on paper, 1957 36.6 x 24.9 cm. (14.4 x 9.8”) Rs. 50,000 – 75,000 $ 1,065 –1,596 “I work for the sheer joy of working and so long as I am in my studio absorbed in my work, no other incentive is there except an intensive urge to plunge headlong into the creative work at hand. So, joy and creation, and nothing else - that supplies the motif of all the works of mine and in fact all other artists.” (Sudhir Khastgir, rpt. in LKA, 1978 ). PAPR Lot 19 Bo.Lon/ 31.10.00 The Dancer Gouache on brown paper, 1945 63.5 x 47.0 cm ASP: £ 1,450 / Rs. 96,518 (£1 = Rs. 66.10)