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

80 55 Sunil Madhav Sen (1910 - 1979) Houses Signed in English’Sunil Madhav Sen’ l.l. Watercolour on paper pasted on mountboard 18.4 x 27.9 in (46.8 x 70.8 cm) Text written on the verso ‘Houses’ Condition Brown stains on paint surface INR 640,000 – 800,000 USD 16,000 – 20,000 54 Sunil Madhav Sen (1910 - 1979) Artist in His Vintage Car Signed in English’Sunil Madhav Sen’ l.c. Gouache on newspaper pasted on mountboard 13.8 x 29.1 in (35.0 x 74.0 cm) Text written on the verso ‘Artist in His Vintage Car’ INR 520,000 – 650,000 USD 13,000 – 16,250 53 Sunil Madhav Sen (1910 - 1979) Villagers are going to market Signed in English’Sunil Madhav Sen’ l.r. Gouache on paper pasted on mountboard 15.0 x 20.7 in (38.0 x 52.5 cm) Text written on the verso’Villagers are going Market’ INR 520,000 – 650,000 USD 13,000 – 16,250 Sunil Madhav’s works are both explicitly and implicitly Indian. He has drawn upon the inexhaustible sources of Indian folk lore, religious texts etc., in search of the subject matter of his paintings…Even when he doesn’t choose Indian subjects directly, his paintings barring a few, always seem to be tinged with what I have already termed as implicit Indianness…The colours used in most of his paintings are bright and Sunil Madhav loves to work in bright colours.’ – Pranabendu Dasgupta rpt. in LKC 28 . p 54