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

50 THE PASSIONATE DETACHMENT 8 C.DOUGLAS (b. 1951) Untitled Mixed media on crumpled handmade paper pasted on cloth, 1993 93.8 x 65.2 cm. (36.9 x 25.7”) “ Douglas, for his part, stayed free of the plastered finish of oils on canvas, worked instead with chalk and crayons on crumpled and muddied paper glued on cloth. He stuck to unobtrusive colour; grays browns and blacks which kept thickening and receding as he worked his pictures to a finish. These detours helped him to arrive at an uneasy middle ground, an odd state of undifferentiated being where it is night when it is day, where each part of the picture is outside as much as inside, where the figure, is as unresisting as the ground and possessively gone over and over again until the picture was exhausted and done.” (Josef James, rpt. in Works on Paper & Ceramic Sculpture ExC . 1996 ). Also refer to The Flamed-Mosaic , HEART/Mapin 1997; Fig 234, p275 for colour illustration of work from same series. Rs. 75,000 -125,000 $ 1,595 - 2,660