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

168 OSIAN ’ s–CONNOISSEURS OF ART 123 Surendran NAIR [b . 1956, Onakkoor, Kerala] The Trophies S/d on verso Oil on canvas, 1994 57.5 x 46.5 cm (22.6 x 18.3 in) Rs. 100,000 – 150,000 $ 2,150 – 3,250 £ 1,175 – 1,775 ‘Surendran Nair’s paintings make references to the present elliptically, couching his reflections on the contemporary within forms and languages that have affiliations to classical icons on the one hand and to Surrealistic art on the other’ – Chaitanya Sambrani, rpt. in Indian Contemporary Art: Post Independence . New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery 1997; p58. 124 Atul DODIYA [b . 1959, Bombay, Maharashtra] The Window S/d & titled on verso Acrylic on plywood, 1990 30.5 x 30.5 cm (12.0 x 12.0 in) Rs. 100,000 – 150,000 $ 2,150 – 3,250 £ 1,175 – 1,775 ‘Dodiya’s world then, is – when viewed superficially – a static one with little tension. There is an obsessive, neurotic quality to the acutely mapped proportions of the doors and the windows, a stringent severity in the postures of the characters and the isolated architecture depicted…The dominant grey-blur tonality, the carefully evolved patchiness of texture and the meditated construction of the picture space into quadrilateral zones, bring to the paintings the somber, considered resonance of a dhrupad exposition’ – Ranjit Hoskote in The Times of India 27 September 1989.