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

60 OSIAN ’ s–CONNOISSEURS OF ART 32 Anjolie Ela MENON [ b .1940, Burnpur, West Bengal] Window Series S/d in English t.c. Mixed media on board with wood, 2001 94.0 x 40.2 cm (37.0 x 15.8 in) Rs. 800,000 – 900,000 $ 17,300 – 19,450 £ 9,475 – 10,650 33 Jatin DAS [ b .1941, Mayurbhanj, Orissa] Jade Couple S/d in English l.l. Oil on canvas, 1995 182.5 x 122.0 cm (72.0 x 48.0 in) Rs. 600,000 – 700,000 $ 12,950 – 15,100 £ 7,100 – 8,275 ‘I paint and draw human figures which are devoid of placement of time. Which are devoid of embellishments of architecture or ornamentation. They are not factual. They are metaphoric and suggestive. And they do their own thing’ – Jatin Das, rpt. from ‘… ramblings of Jatin Das’ in Cymroza Art Gallery 1993 ExC. ‘Life peers out from the confines and divide of the window with the protagonist often trapped as if by volition…The actuality of the window and its irrelevant ornateness connects the viewer and the painting to a grid of fractured spaces and multiple images. In the most realized work of this genre, Anjolie evokes that which is hinted at, the unsung song that wafts across disturbing landscape, the unrealized dream that beckons through the window that divides aspiration and reality.’ – Isana Murti, rpt. in Anjolie Ela Menon: Paintings in Private Collections. New Delhi: 1995; p33