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

54 THE PASSIONATE DETACHMENT 12 D.P.ROY CHOWDHURY (1899 - 1975) Demon Signed in Bengli, l.r. Watercolour & Gouache, early 1950s 36.9 x 19.4 cm. (14.5 x 7.6”) Rs. 200,000 - 250,000 $ 4,255 - 5,320 The work has been conserved. “Between the two extreme poles of romanticism of the Bengal School and the drama of light and shade of the Rembrandt School, Deviprasad tried to find a synthesis, which apparently was impossible... In my estimation, this is Deviprasad’s greatest contribution to contemporary Indian art.” (Prodosh Das Gupta, from BAAC Retrospective ExC. 1989 ).