Osian's Auction Catalogue ABC Series III | March 2007

ABC Series III 60 62 S.G. VASUDEV (b.1941) Fantasy S/d in English ‘Vasudev 68’ l.r. Oil on canvas, 1968 35.0 x 18.5 in (89.0 x 47.0 cm) INR 500,000 – 625,000 USD 11,300 – 14,100 ‘In his very early works, he retained a few suggestions of the body but made the outline play about, blurring the separation between the gure and the ground. Eventually he picked out his line and let the body run into the ground in excited passages of colour. These pictures which he did in the middle of the sixties were beautifully impulsive, sensitive and quite innovative. The assurance with which Vasudev used this kind of drawing in such a remarkably personal way, points to some inward certainty about such a manner of description.’ – Josef James rpt. in LKC 19 & 20, April- September 1975 ; p38.