Osian's Auction Catalogue Masterpieces and Museum-Quality III | March 2004

101 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III 43 JATIN DAS (b.1941 / Mayurbhanj, Orissa) Couple S/d in English t.l. Oil on canvas, 1993 150.0 x 120.0 cm (59.1 x 47.2 in) Rs. 500,000 – 600,000 US$ 11,100 – 13,350 GB£ 8,950 – 7,300 “Jatin’s figures are bare. Which make the colours draping them so overpowering and vibrant. Having auras which surround them and define them. Like a dynamic energy enfolding them, giving to them life and substance. His women are poised and composed. Indolent and languid. And seem absorbed in themselves. Where there is more than one figure, the relationship and the tension between them is OSIANs S.I.R. ANALYSIS [1996–2002] Present Estimate 179.24 Previous High 307.14 [So.Lon/08.10.96; oil on canvas, 1976] Previous Average 55.69 Auction Average 289.84 Opinion Few high-quality paintings by Jatin Das have been offered at public auctions. As this situation changes, one expects his average S.I.R. to reach 110–120 by 2005 end. overwhelming. His figures have now become a little less abstract, but more restful and captured –in an interlude between emotion and motion. Caught in the tempo of movement, his forms are ephemeral and volatile. And yet so still. So peaceful.” (Shobita Punja, in ‘…ramblings of Jatin Das’, rpt. in Women of Clay –Paintings and Drawings by Jatin Das EXC. AIFACS Galleries 1992.)