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

65 PHILOSOPHICAL FRAMEWORK 24 SAILOZ MOOKHERJEA (1907 - 60) Rajasthani Belle with Belongings Signed in English, l.r. Watercolour & Ink, late 1950s 50.0 x 39.5 cm. (19.7 x 15.6”) Rs. 350,000 – 425,000 Non-Exportable Item “ Sailoz is very modern. His contemporaneity is seen especially in a free and spontaneous handling of his media. He questions older conventions and his painterly, pseudo-careless treatment is typical. Here figures are not figures but patches of pigment; garments, hair, trees, are liberated colour. His thin brush sweeps across spaces and whips up shapes with an art nouveau exuberance. He prefers suggestion to statement and his details are only the right amount of decoration. This attitude towards paint and brush is very modern. It is uninhibited and enthusiastic, restless and momentary…” (Jaya Appasamy, ibid ).