Osian's Auction Catalogue ABC Series III | March 2007

ABC Series III 16 8 SUDHIR KHASTGIR (1907–74) Buddha’s Head Signed in Bengali t.l. Artist seal t.l. Mixed media on paper, late 1940s 19.5 x 26.8 in (37.4 x 50.7 cm) Condition Backed with newspaper. Minor creases and tears along the edges. INR 1,000,000 – 1,250,000 USD 22,550 – 28,200 ‘I work for the sheer joy of working and so long as I am in my studio absorbed in my work, no other incentive is there except an intensive urge to plunge headlong into the creative work at hand. So, joy and creation, and nothing else – that supplies the motif of all the works of mine and in fact all other artists.’ Sudhir Khastgir, rpt. in Sudhir Khastgir . LKA Monograph 1978.