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

51 19 V.S. Gaitonde (1924 – 2001) Untitled Oil on canvas, 1969 S/d in Devanagari and English ‘GAITONDE 69’ on verso 35.1 x 30.1 in (89.2 x 76.5 cm) INR 16,000,000 – 20,000,000 USD 333,330 – 416,670 Illustrated Reference Painting from the same series is illustrated in full colour in N. Tuli’s The Flamed – Mosaic : Indian Contemporary Painting . New Delhi : HEART and Mapin Publishing 1997. Plate 160, p.222. “ Gaitonde’s explorations regarding the luminosities and densities of colour, could best be clarified if one tries to imagine the formation of puddles of water on a marble floor, hand in hand with their consequent drying process. Random shapes emerge, only to disappear and re-emerge. These uncertainties are played with, each moment demanding a stillness. Soon one feels that randomness has been given sufficient freedom, and is about to return the compliment, revealing herself through some recognisable form”. – Neville Tuli, ibid , p.258.