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

68 THE PASSIONATE DETACHMENT 27 GIEVE PATEL (b. 1940) a. Lost Monument S/d in English, l.r. Etching, 1971 b. Dead Politician S/d in English, l.r. Etching, 1972 35.2 x 30 cm. (13.8 x 11.8”) Rs. 75,000 - 100,000 $ 1,595 - 2,130 (Set of 2) 28 NAVJOT (b. 1949) Their Dreams Titled/dtd. on reverse. Pen & Ink, 1979 24.3 x 35.8 cm. (9.6 x 14.1”) Rs. 75,000 - 100,000 $ 1,595 - 2,130 “Gieve belongs rightfully to the long realist tradition. He has always worked out his paintings as though he were a man groping in a flickering darkness, aware that the gestalt we spoke of above - the figure structural relationship between the figure and the environment - is more than ever difficult to work out in painterly terms because of our very inability to perceive the indispensable relationships on which society rests. Or, again, he has worked like a photographer, eliciting a picture of the world he knows well enough but which he must need develop from nothing, and in the privacy of the dark room, in order to be sure only the essential imprint is recovered”. (Geeta Kapur, rpt. in Focus (4 painters), Gallery Chemould ExC . 1979 ). PAPR HT.Mum/ 15.11.97 Me Myself Pen & Ink, 1979 55.9 x 71.1 cm. ASP: Rs. 50,000/ $ 1,362 ($1= Rs. 36.70) a b c