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

152 OSIAN ’ s–CONNOISSEURS OF ART 110 Chittrovanu MAZUMDAR [b . 1956, Paris, France] Kali Initialled in English l.r. Oil on canvas, c.1993 115.0 x 80.5 cm (45.3 x 31.7 in) Rs. 175,000 – 250,000 $ 3,800 – 5,400 £ 2,075 – 2,950 ‘Chittrovanu’s painting has always sought to move through tensions to balance: the fragmentation of form, deliberately disintegrated only to be rebuilt; the interplay of rhythms of colour and line; all coming to rest in a final resolution a final harmony. Only now the tensions are heightened, the risks greater, the disruptions more pronounced.’ Rpt. in Chittrovanu Mazumdar: Recent Works. Birla Art & Culture Academy 1987 ExC. ‘The whole act of painting for this artist has grown more and more swift, charged, urgent. The aggressive handling of space, the tortured, convulsed, fractured anthromorphic forms, the blood-like dribblings of paint, all bespeak violence. The human figure is depicted as increasingly brutalized.’ – Anjum Katyal, rpt. in Chittrovanu Mazumdar Recent Works. Seagull Exhibition 1994 ExC.