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

27 7 Avinash Chandra (1931 – 1991) New York Acrylic on canvas, 1969 S/d in English ‘Avinash 69’ l.l. and on verso 48.1 x 60.2 in (122.2 x 153.0 cm) INR 3,600,000 – 4,500,000 USD 75,000 – 93,750 “There is an ambiguity to all of his imagery that can be understood through a layering of psychological import: at first glance they are one thing and on closer inspection, or at a different glance they are something else. They are often at once structures and figures, full of energy and static, anthropomorphic and human… His are ‘symbolic presences’, however a personal symbolism that is open and non-particular – generic shapes of people in landscape, sun, moon, building… In 1967 Chandra won a Fairfield Foundation Fellowship for Travel and Study to New York, and although he was exhibiting and selling regularly in the United States he returned to London in 1973.” – Dr. Rachel Garfield, rpt. in Avinash Chandra: A Retrospective , Osborne Samuel LLP, Berkley Square Gallery, London, 2006, p12.