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

86 THE PASSIONATE DETACHMENT 47 K.G.SUBRAMANYAN (b.1924) a. Flowers S/d in Bengali, l.r. Lithograph, 1984 48.4 x 36 cm. (19.1 x 14.2”) b. Landscape Signed in Bengali, l.l. Mixed media, early 1990’s 20.1 x 27.9 cm. (79.0 x 11.0”) c. Woman S/d in Bengali, l.l. Mixed media, 1990 28.1 x 20.6 cm. (11.1 x 8.1”) d. Durga S/d in Bengali, l.r. Charcoal, 1998 24.1 x 17.7 cm. (9.5 x 7.0”) “A sketch is part of this groping around. It records something that happens between the artist and the object. Now closer to the artist, now closer to the object, but still hanging in the tension in between. Or the memory or recall of that tension. A composite of line, scratches, smears, swabs and dots that recreates an object, it learns its rhythms in the process. And becomes an object by itself. The artist sometimes keeps it to the essentials; at other times he dresses it up and makes it play a role. Set sail a narrative. And take one to new shores of experience. This uncovers new images. So this ceaseless doodling; the unraveling of what is, then its reknitting into novel composites…” (K.G.Subramanyan, in Sketches Scribbles Drawings 1999 , pviii). Rs. 100,000 – 150,000 $ 2,130 – 3,190 (Set of 4) b a