Osian's Auction Catalogue The Masterpieces Series | March 2010

150 95 v ivan S unDaraM (b.1943) Junk on High Seas Pastel on paper, 1987 S/d in English ‘Vivan 87’ t.l. 18.9 x 24.7 in (48.1 x 62.5 cm) INR 320,000 – 480,000 US$ 6,670 – 10,000 “I did want to have a reference to landscape but not a traditional notion of landscape. The traces of annihilation are virtually the structural elements of drawings. But somewhere within this annihilated world there is this ground plan of nature, somewhere underlying this uprooted terrain there is need for order.” – Vivan Sundaram, Long Night: Drawings in Charcoal , Rabindra Bhavan New Delhi, ExC, 1998.