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

140 OSIAN ’ s–CONNOISSEURS OF ART Please refer to Raza . Bombay: Sadanga Series 1959, for various illustrations of works from the same Village Series. ‘...shapes dissolves in seas of colours which are by no means unorganised and fluid but seem to move and evolve within the space of the painting...’ ‘...comprehensive and intuitive understanding of landscape, not in the picture postcard sense of reproducing the obviously visible, but in the tradition of Cezanne – recreating the very structure and nature of a landscape in terms of painting...’ – Rudi von Leyden, rpt. in op. cit. 1959. ‘...his colours take on an entirely new complexion. Brilliant reds and yellows stand out against large looming forces of black and deep Prussian blue...’