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

22 MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY III EXPLANATION OF CATALOGUING TERMS Any statement of authorship, attribution, provenance, origin, date, age, and condition is a statement of opinion and is not to be taken as a statement of fact. Osian’s reserves the right, in forming their opinion, to consult and rely upon any expert or authority considered by them to be reliable. 1. The term ‘signed and dated’ (S/d) and/or inscribed means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription are from the hand of the artist. FORMAT for Auction Lot Caption is as follows: Lot Number ARTIST NAME (Date of Birth / Place of Birth) Title Signature & date details Medium, Date Size in centimeters (in inches) Lower & Upper Price Estimates in Indian Rupees (INR) Lower & Upper Price Estimates in US $ Lower & Upper Price Estimates in UK Pound 2. For all art works the dimensions are given height before width in centimeters [& inches]. 3. Paintings are framed unless stated otherwise. 4. Osian’s has tried to provide the best quality acid-free mounts to works wherever appropriate, and has reframed works from quality framers, wherever possible. ABBREVIATIONS AHJ Art Heritage Journal AIFACS All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi b. Born B/w Black & white BAAC Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata c. circa CIMA Centre for International Modern Art, Kolkata CUP Cambridge University Press d. Death Ed. Editor EXC Exhibition Catalogue HEART The Tuli Foundation for Holistic Education and Art INTACH Indian National Trust for Architectural Conservation & Heritage Inted. International Edition L Lot No. LKA Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi LKC Lalit Kala Contemporary Journal, New Delhi Mapin Mapin Publishing Private Limited, Ahmedabad NCPA National Center for the Performing Arts, Mumbai NCZCC North Central Zonal Cultural Centre nd Not Dated NGMA National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi NGMA, Mumbai National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai np No Pagination OUP Oxford University Press p. Page pp. Pages rpt. Reproduced / Reprinted S/d Signed & dated SCZCC South Central Zonal Cultural Centre S.I.R. Square Inch Rate verso Reverse side c.c. center centre c.l. centre left c.r. centre right l.c. lower centre l.l. lower left l.r. lower right t.c. top centre t.l. top left t.r. top right