Osian's Auction Catalogue The Masterpieces Series | March 2010

57 The Masterpieces SerieS 28 h.A. g Ade (1917 – 2001) Houses (Front) & Woman (Verso) Gouache on cardboard, 1950 and 1953 S/d in English ‘Gade 50’ l.l. and ‘Gade 53’ on verso 12.5 x 23.7 in (31.8 x 60.1 cm) Condition Minor paint losses and ageing cracks present on few areas Provenance THE OSIAN’s COLLECTION. INR 640,000 – 960,000 US$ 13,330 – 20,000 “There was no room for complacency, however, and he had his doubts and fears. Perhaps, he thought he was losing, too suddenly, contact with nature, which had all along been an intimate compulsion with him. Or, he realized the need to look at nature from a new point of view. In 1950, he spent a few months in Kashmir and brought home fresh material. In the months that followed, he produced a series of paintings which bore the impress of the colour of Kashmir, its peculiar architecture and picturesque people. – S. A. Krishnan, Gade , Sadanga, New Delhi, 1961, p.18. Exhibited and illustrated Revisualising India. Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, 2005. Illustrated in catalogue published by Osian’s – Connoisseurs of Art, p.72