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

51 PHILOSOPHICAL FRAMEWORK 9 RAMESHWAR BROOTA (b. 1941) Man 2000 Series S/d in English, on reverse. Oil on canvas with use of razor blade, 2000 152.4 x 152.4 cm. (60.0 x 60.0”) “ Some of these works, large, to very large, are like standing miracles, and they have the impersonality of art that has become truly independent of their maker but thereby also being a compelling presence. The painstaking working on each inch of the canvas is a tribute to the painter’s patience,… indeed proof of subordination of himself before the creative power that is working through him. In this sense he is close in spirit to our artisans who forego personal expression in favour of expressing that which is universal… but through the energies of a self-informed creative instinct, and wherein thought or idea and action cannot be told apart at all. A standing miracle of a work indeed.” (Keshav Malik, from The Winding Spiral , ExC . 1998). PAPR Lot 225 HT.ND/ 28.11.99 Vanishing Steps Oil on canvas, 1995 178 x 228.6 cm. ASP: Rs. 441,000/$ 10,200 ($1 = Rs. 43.30) Lot 124 So.NY/ 05.12.00 The Last Chapter Oil on canvas, 1982 177.8 x 127 cm. ASP: $18,000/ Rs.846,000 ($1 = Rs. 47.00) Rs. 500,000 - 600,000 $ 10,640 - 12,765