Osian's Auction Catalogue The Masterpieces Series | March 2010

151 The Masterpieces SerieS 96 a rPana C aur (b.1954) Four Sea Images Oil on canvas, 1986 46.5 x 46.5 in (118.1 x 118.1 cm) Provenance THE OSIAN’s COLLECTION INR 1,600,000 – 2,400,000 US$ 33,330 – 50,000 “Her work has evolved from a fairly close approximation to the structure of Pahari miniatures, with its use of flat colours and the pictorial element, to a definite restructuring of her canvases that are diptychs and triptychs where, for example, the water, earth and sky divisions are no longer placed in a vertical sequence but a horizontal one…Even the repetitive and decorative element, rather like the folk ornamentation derived from the sculptural friezes in our temples play the role of the metronome in western music or the tanpoora in ours, placing the work in a temporal or tonal context.” – Suneet Chopra, rpt. in Arpana Caur 1975-95, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi, 1995.