Osian's Auction Catalogue ABC Series III | March 2007

ABC Series III 105 108 N.S. BENDRE (1910–92) Birth S/d in Devnagari ‘Bendre 56’ l.r. Oil on canvas pasted on board, 1956 48.0 x 35.7 in (122.0 x 90.8 cm) INR 4,000,000 – 5,000,000 USD 90,250 – 112,850 Lot 108 represents one of the earliest works by the Artist to come up for public auction. 109 SHANTI DAVE (b.1931) Untitled S/d in English ‘Shanti Dave ‘64’ t.r. Oil on canvas, 1964 24.9 x 17.7 in (63.3 x 45.0 cm) INR 1,000,000 – 1,250,000 USD 22,550 – 28,200 ‘These colour-texture areas possess no denite shapes but they have a character of their own, often similar to shapes found in his earlier paintings. His colour too has transformed which is now much more subtle. The obvious decorative schemes consisting of mainly primaries as used in earlier works give place to more nuances. In a scheme of ochres suddenly one comes across a patch of dazzling emerald or a blazing crimson. At another place a scheme comprising largely of browns and greens is heightened by a surprisingly uorescent turquoise…. The predeliction with diagonal hatchings, seemingly oating in space, that was present in Shanti’s paintings of around 1960, has now given way to a shallower space and the brush movements are mostly along horizontal and vertical directions’. – Ratan Parimoo rpt. in Recent Paintings of Shanti Dave ExC 1965. ‘Shantibhai’s works have remained essentially abstract, once he entered into the phase of abstraction during the early 1960s… he let the ‘line’ retain its prominence as the Indian element, while colour areas had a symphonic element even at that stage of his work.’ – Ratan Parimoo rpt. in Krishna Avtarana The Exhibition of Paintings by Shanti Dave ExC 2001.