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

ABSTACT-FIGURATIVE DILEMMA 203 200 LAXMA GOUD (b.1940) Woman & Goat S/d in Telugu, l.l. Gouache on paper, 1993 27.8 x 34.9 cm. (10.9 x 13.7”) Rs. 75,000 – 125,000 $ 1,595 – 2,660 199 PROKASH KARMAKAR (b.1933) Woman with Flower S/d in Bengali, l.l. Acrylic on board, 1985 74.6 x 49.5 cm. (29.4 x 19.5”) Rs. 75,000 – 125,000 $ 1,595 – 2,660 “ In the Man/ Woman with Goat I have depicted the organ which you would not notice when looking at a goat, because I wanted to stress the organic relationship between the human and animal. You don’t raise a goat — or any domestic animal — to cut it and eat it; you do so for a whole relationship. Similarly, the man-woman relationship. When you pat someone, man, woman or animal, it is not just a sexual expression. The grace of touch lifts up the relationship…” (From conversation between Laxma Goud & Ratnottama Sengupta, New Delhi, 1994).