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

74 34 ABALAL RAHIMAN (1860 - 1931) a. Kashmir Series Watercolour, mid 1920s 16.6 x 10.9 cm. (6.5 x 4.3”) b. Kashmir Series Initials in English, l.r. Watercolour, mid 1920s 16.6 x 10.9 cm. (6.5 x 4.3”) Rs. 400,000 - 500,000 $ 8,510 - 10,640 (Set of 2) “ He (A.Rahiman) shone at the school as a brilliant student, but adverse circumstances consigned him to oblivion. Otherwise he would have basked in limelight as a leading artist.” (M.V.Dhurandhar from Kalamandirantil , quoted in P.Mitter’s Art & Nationalism in Colonial India 1850-1922 , p86). Abalal’s Kashmir Series was inspired by Francis Younghusband’s volume on Kashmir.