Osian's Auction Catalogue ABC Series III | March 2007

ABC Series III 36 32 SAILOZ MOOKHERJEA (1907–60) National Art Treasure Woman Signed in English ‘Sailoz Mookherjea’ t.r. Watercolour on paper pasted on cardboard, early 1950s 9.4 x 8.0 in (24.0 x 20.3 cm) INR 500,000 – 625,000 Non Exportable Item 33 SUNIL MADHAV SEN (1910–79) Untitled Signed in English ‘Sunil Madhav Sen’ l.r. Watercolour, wash and pencil on paper pasted on cardboard 18.9 x 14.6 in (48.0 x 37.0 cm) INR 600,000 – 750,000 USD 13,550 – 16,950 ‘Sunil Madhav’s works are both explicitly and implicitly Indian. He has drawn upon the inexhaustible sources of Indian folk lore, religious texts etc., in search of the subject matter of his paintings… Even when he doesn’t choose Indian subjects directly, his paintings barring a few, always seem to be tinged with what I have already termed as implicit Indianness… The colours used in most of his paintings are bright and Sunil Madhav loves to work in bright colours.’ – Pranabendu Dasgupta rpt. in LKC 28 September 1979 , p.54.