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

63 PHILOSOPHICAL FRAMEWORK 22 GAGANENDRANATH TAGORE (1867 - 1938) National Art Treasure Darjeeling Landscape Series Initials in English, l.r. Watercolour & Wash, early 1920s 9.0 x 46.0 cm. (3.5 x 18.1”) Rs. 425,000 - 500,000 Non- Exportable Item “…he is a legend among the discriminating and, as time passes, his work is coming to be recognized as even more significant than the major works of the school with which he was vaguely associated. For, both in his mature painting, where he sought to absorb Far Eastern and Cubist influences into the service of his own peculiar private vision of forms, and as a commentator on current affairs, through his cartoons he displayed a depth of understanding about the mental and moral crises in which India was involved and as extraordinary technical virtuosity as a craftsman…” (Mulk Raj Anand, rpt. in Rooplekha XXXVIII 1969 ).