Osian's Auction Catalogue The Masterpieces Series | March 2010

126 77 n aSreen M ohaMeDi (1937 – 1990) Figure Watercolour and charcoal on paper, Early 1960s 27.3 x 19.5 in (69.5 x 49.5 cm) Provenance THE OSIAN’s COLLECTION. Acquired on 20 November 2002 from Bowrings Auction (Lot 204), New Delhi INR 600,000 – 900,000 US$ 12,500 – 18,750 76 B. P raBha (1931 – 2001) Village Belle Oil on canvas, 1960 S/d in English ‘b.prabha 1960’ l.r. 27.7 x 23.4 in (70.3 x 59.5 cm) Condition Previously Restored. Stable cracks all over INR 600,000 – 900,000 US$ 12,500 – 18,750 “As for Agnes Martin, even when she returned to painting after a period of renunciation, it was still subliminal in the shape of pale hard paintings. It is as if she accepted impotence, humility, empty rectangles, silence and blankness - like John Cage. Thus she made a bridge to the minimal/conceptual aesthetic. She tended then to be included in systematic painting shows and her work was placed with Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman, Donald Judd and Carl Andre. - Geeta Kapur, ‘Elegy For An Unclaimed Beloved: Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990)’, Nasreen In Retrospect , Ashraf Mohamedi Trust, Bombay, 1995, p.14.