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

150 OSIAN’S 70 VASUDHA THOZDHUR (b.1956 / Mysore, Karnataka) Untouchable (in 4 panels) S/d in English on verso Oil on canvas, 2002 Panel 1: 244.5 x 70.0 cm (96.3 x 27.6 in); Panel 2: 244.5 x 70.0 cm (96.3 x 27.6 in); Panel 3: 244.5 x 153.2 cm (96.3 x 60.3 in); Panel 4: 244.5 x 43.2 cm (96.3 x 17.30 in); Combined: 224.5 x 336.4 cm (96.3 x 132.4 in) Rs. 300,000 – 400,000 US$ 6,650 – 8,900 GB£ 3,650 – 4,900 OSIANs S.I.R. ANALYSIS [1992–2003] Present Estimate 23.53 Previous High 21.74 [Os.Mum/27.11.03] Auction Average 289.84 “ Thozdhur has written eloquently of what influences her time-space mental frame – the disruption of travel, the disjunctures and discontinuities between paintings themselves. At the same time she is distrustful of the straight reading of symbols and metaphors, or the petrified interpretations that art can lend itself to. Instead art marks ebb and flow, from scenes and objects of everyday use and preoccupation to the private quiet areas of the self that contain, if not define, objective reality.” (Gayatri Sinha, rpt. in Combine – Voices for the New Century EXC . NGMA 2000.)