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

169 133 Ganesh Pyne (b.1937) The Prince S/d in Bengali ‘Ganesh Pyne 75’ l.l. Tempera on canvas, 1975 16.5 x 14.6 in (42.0 x 37.0 cm) INR 4,000,000 – 6,000,000 USD 100,000 – 150,000 ‘Ever since Ganesh Pyne discarded oil painting in favour of tempera, added certain ingredients to it and perfected a technique that would suit his morbid poetic mood, the impressionable among the young painters have searched for their own peculiar medium to suit their temperament’ Sandip Sarkar. rpt. Lalit Kala Contemporary Vol. 21, 1976; p.22.