Osian's Auction Catalogue Select Masterpieces of Indian Modern and Contemporary Art | June 2009

21 4 Manjit Bawa (1914 – 2008) Untitled Oil on canvas, 2006 S/d in English ‘Manjit Bawa 06’ on verso 90.0 x 65.7 in (228.6 x 166.7 cm) INR 8,000,000 – 10,000,000 USD 166,670 – 208,330 “The deeply reflective mode in some of his [Manjit Bawa] iconic images have to do with the notion of zikr or remembrance in sama or the act of listening as practiced by the Sufis traveling through and experiencing the vastness of ecology…It could be argued that Manjit’s work in his last phase has moved assuredly away from a typological iconography of the face. There is an unambiguous aspiration towards emblematic remembrance. This is the way of approaching the domain of subjectivity, perhaps.” – Madan Gopal Singh, rpt. in Bhav, Bhaav, Bhavya , Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai/ Impresario, Calcutta/ Gallery Espace, New Delhi, 1999, pp. 27-8, ExC.