Osian's Auction Catalogue ABC Series III | March 2007

ABC Series III 49 48 JYOTI BHATT (b.1934) Boats Mixed media on paper pasted on paper, c .1955 14.2 x 20.5 in (36.0 x 52.0 cm) INR 600,000 – 750,000 USD 13,550 – 16,950 ‘…What Jyoti Bhatt is engaged in can be described as an allegorization of the spaces between tradition and modernity. The insights that come through may look like certain delightful ashes of wisdom that is rooted- in, and almost proposing an utopian pastoral past as an antidote to modernism. Jyoti Bhatt is sceptical of the modernity that is layered upon the ‘traditions’ . But, from this position the self image that he holds-forth is the one that is ironically and contradictorily entrenched in both.’ Shivaji K. Panikar, from ‘A Space Between the Tradition and the Modern’, rpt. in Jyothi Bhatt . Cymroza Art Gallery ExC.1998.