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

134 OSIAN ’ s–CONNOISSEURS OF ART 94 Madhvi PAREKH [b. 1942, Sanjaya, Gujarat] Mother S/d in Devanagari l.l. Oil on canvas, 1972 153.0 x 89.0 cm (60.2 x 35.0 in) Rs. 400,000 – 500,000 $ 8,650 – 10,800 £ 4,725 – 5,925 ‘Madhvi Parekh’s images of fantasy and childhood memories, spread over her entire work, have this iconic-symbolic quality. They keep recurring – now in the center-stage, now floating across the landscape, sometimes framed within a window or a door, or sometimes making their presence felt by their absence. When the same characters and objects such as anthromorphic animals, bird with transparent bodies, smiling snakes, heads, torsos, trees and buildings, keep appearing and reappearing in her work, over the years, they assume the role of pictographs which, when reused in different contexts, continu- ously renegotiate the emic and etic structures of the language of her expression.’ – Jyotindra Jain, rpt. in Madhvi Parekh. Vadehra Art Gallery 1999 ExC.