Osian's Auction Catalogue The Masterpieces Series | March 2010

157 The Masterpieces SerieS 99 B iMal D aSGuPta (1917 – 1995) Untitled Oil on canvas, 1991 S/d in English ‘B.Dasgupta 91’ l.r. 53.9 x 45.0 in (137.0 x 114.5 cm) Provenance Dhoomimal Art Gallery INR 500,000 – 750,000 US$ 10,420 – 15,630 100 G aneSh h aloi (b.1936) Untitled Acrylic on paper (pasted on paperboard), 1993 Signed in Bengali ‘Ganesh Haloi’ l.r. 15.8 x 29.6 in (40.2 x 75.3 cm) INR 800,000 – 1,200,000 US$ 16,670 – 25,000 “They are the works of a thoughtful, matured artist. Meditation has replaced poetic lyricism and a subtle abstraction gives his present works, in spite of their modest dimensions, an air of monumentality and power. He has abandoned the specific visual reality of a subject and now sets out, instead, to reveal and express with deep emotion the pictorial possibilities of the rhythm of spaces that he realizes in the various oppositions and continuities of forms.” – Sushil Mukherjee, Jehangir Art Gallery ExC, Bombay, 1993. Lot 100 Exhibited and illustrated The Underlying Spirit. Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 2004. Illustrated in catalogue published by Osian’s – Connoisseurs of Art, New Delhi, p.87; and Revisualising India. Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, 2005. Illustrated in catalogue published by Osian’s – Connoisseurs of Art, p.64