Osian's Auction Catalogue The Masterpieces and Museum Quality Series | October 2004

123 THE MASTERPIECES & MUSEUM-QUALITY SERIES 83 Sunil Madhav SEN [1910- 1979/ b . Purulia, West Bengal] Musician S/d in English l.l. Mixed media on paper, 1960 83.5 x 48.0 cm (32.9 x 18.9 in) Rs. 150,000 – 225,000 $ 3,250 – 4,850 £ 1,775 – 2,675 ‘Sunil Madhav’s works are both explicitly and implicitly Indian. He has drawn upon the inexhaustible sources of Indian folk lore, religious texts etc., in search of the subject matter of his paintings… Even when he doesn’t choose Indian subjects directly, his paintings barring a few, always seem to be tinged with what I have already termed as implicit Indianness…The colours used in most of his paintings are bright and Sunil Madhav loves to work in bright colours.’ – Pranabendu Dasgupta, rpt. in LKC 28 September 1979 ; p54. Sunil Madhav Sen Refer to Catalogue of Collections, Vol.1: National Gallery of Modern Art. New Delhi: NGMA 1989, for B/w illustration of work from the same series: Acc. No.1817.