Osian's Auction Catalogue The Masterpieces Series | March 2010

110 64 K. l axMa g oud (b.1940) The Forest Series Etching on paper (handmade), 1976 S/d in English ‘K. Laxma Goud 1976’ l.r. and in Telugu ‘K Laxma Goud 1976’ l.c., a printed signature in Telugu ‘K Laxma Goud 76’l.r. Inscribed in English ‘ETCHING COPPER, AP’ l.l. 18.3 x 24.0 in (46.5 x 61.0 cm) INR 300,000 – 450,000 US$ 6,250 – 9,380 “Eros, first, should be taken for some primordial power, acting on and through each living thing, and manifesting itself in and to us most forcible as sexual desire: the world as Goud paints it is ruled by Eros, one could say. Our bodies, next, should not be understood as not only housing thinking and feeling selves but as themselves sentient rather; and conscious thought and emotion should be taken as certain inflections only, as it were, of that embodied sentience. We do not naturally look this way at the world - and at ourselves as bodies - and probably cannot do so very easily; but that is an effort of imagination we have to make if we are to make anything of Goud’s work.”- Hans Varghese Mathews, K. Laxma Goud: The Rule of Eros , Kala Yatra, Bombay- New Delhi-Calcutta, 1999, p.3.