Osian's Auction Catalogue The Masterpieces Series | March 2010

142 88 G ieve P atel (b.1940) Bicyclist in a Field Acrylic on canvas, 1979 65.8 x 40.2 in (167.2 x 102.0 cm) Provenance THE OSIAN’s COLLECTION INR 1,600,000 – 2,400,000 US$ 33,330 – 50,000 Illustrated reference: Gieve Patel: Select Works 1971-2006, ExC, Threshold Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2009, cover page. “Patel has long drawn and painted the ordinary, in terms of the everyday, and also the extraordinary, in terms of deprivation and dispossession in a way that draws these features out …one can always recognise Patel’s complete commitment that remains free of trend or compromise…” - Kamala Kapoor, rpt. in Gieve Patel: Select Works 1971-2006 , ExC, Threshold Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2009.