Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Modern and Contemporary Art | January 2008

149 112 Ramkumar (b.1924) Untitled Signed in Devnagari ‘Ramkumar’ dated in English ‘81’ l.r. Watercolour and oil on paper pasted on board, 1981 22.0 x 29.5 in (56.0 x 75.0 cm) INR 1,000,000 – 1,250,000 USD 25,000 – 31,250 Literary Reference Painting from the same period illustrated in the following publication: Bartholomew, Richard. ‘Landscape as Vision.’ Art Heritage , Vol. 4 , 1984 – 85; pp. 97-109. 111 Ramkumar (b.1924) Landscape S/d in English ‘Ramkumar 77’ on verso Oil on canvas, 1977 38.0 x 33.0 in (96.5 x 83.8 cm) INR 9,600,000 – 12,000,000 USD 240,000 – 300,000 ‘Ram Kumar’s paintings of the past ten years have been called landscapes though the spectator will not immediately discern the usual ingredients of land, sky and water in these strong, emphatic and engaging compositions. It would be difficult to determine what is referred to as horizon, the foreground, mid-distance, etc. in paintings which for all their structural solidity are abstract in essence. His recent paintings are built of structural parts, wedges, segments, angular drifts of paint which , while they have a directional movement, and suggest a sweeping view, cohere as a fabric of colour’ Richard Bartholomew. rpt. Art Heritage 1984–85 ; p. 97.