Osian's Auction Catalogue ABC Series III | March 2007

ABC Series III 64 66 V. VISWANADHAN (b.1941) Untitled Oil on cloth, c .1973 41.5 x 41.5 in (105.5 x 105.5 cm) INR 800,000 – 1,000,000 USD 18,050 – 22,550 ‘Viswanadhan simultaneously draws while he paints and paints while he draws. What is not wished to be said is that he envisages his work on paper like sketches for their paintings, not like ‘drawings’ in the conventional sense. The artist searches rather well to attain a perfect fusion of the straight line, of the angle, the geometric motif, simple in general, with the course of temporary events, sometimes unpredictable, which punctuates this pictorial narration.’ Claude Boyeure, rpt. in Viswanadhan V. Vadehra Art Gallery ExC.1997.