Osian's Auction Catalogue ABC Series III | March 2007

ABC Series III 114 122 GOGI SAROJ PAL (b.1945) Untitled Acrylic on canvas, 1998 64.0 x 40.0 in (162.6 x 101.6 cm) INR 1,000,000 – 1,250,000 USD 22,550 – 28,200 ‘She is totally involved with her subject as a human being. But at the same time she gets detached when it comes to the act of painting, just like the restrained tension her gures convey, where all conict is subdued an friction toned down… The stylised faces in her drawings, etchings lithos and paintings, with their death like paleness, the haunted look of empty eye sockets in deep shadow, the suggestion of lifelessness in the limbs and the deliberate austerity of colours all show Gogi’s preoccupation with the emptiness of the individual who is alienated because of knowledge and understanding… Gogi Saroj Pal has come a considerable way from her early shaky steps. She shows tremendous commitment towards her chosen eld with no trace of complacency. Gogi is one of those rare phenomenon – a modern woman artist with a liberal outlook and crusading zeal. A true individualist.’ LKC 33 , December 1985; pp. 42-6.