Osian's Auction Catalogue The Masterpieces Series | March 2010

166 107 B ikaSh B hattaCharJee (1940 – 2006) Summer No.1 Oil pastel on paperboard, 1997 S/d in English ‘Bikash 97’ l.l. 21.9 x 29.9 in (50.5 x 76.0 cm) INR 720,000 – 1,080,000 US$ 15,000 – 22,500 “Most of the time, I live with my woman. She is not my wife, nor my daughter. But it is she I have fashioned out of my dreams, nurtured with my tears. She comes into my art, with my capabilities and shortcomings. I do not do anything to dishonor her, for she is not very different from me.” – Bikash Bhattacharjee, Bikash Bhattacharjee: Recent Works, ExC, CIMA Gallery, Calcutta, 1994.