Osian's Auction Catalogue Creative India Series 1 Bengal | December 2011

d.P. R oy C howdhuRy 15 June 1899 – 15 October 1975 Animal Bronze (Single edition), nd (Mid 1940s) Initialled in English ‘DP’ on lower portion 12.2 x 15.4 x 11.3 in (31.0 x 39.0 x 27.0 cm) Provenance From an important private collector of Devi Prasad in Landsdowne Road, Kolkata. ` 2,000,000 – 3,000,000 US$ 40,000 – 60,000 75 1780 1800 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1910 1920 1925 1930 1935 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 2000 Creative India BENGAL | Rabindranath Tagore & Santiniketan 173 172 “RoyChoudhury, like Rodin, is rugged, original and virile; his sculpture has the same elemental fury and strength. He has also the French-man’s ardour and endurance. His genius, for all his great achievements on the canvas, is essentially, and pre-eminently three-dimensional; his affirmative and direct talent ultimately and quite naturally sought the sculptural medium. His modelling is rough, swift and decisive - energetically and ruggedly impressive - accomplished with the disconcerting cocksureness of genius. The sculpture becomes at once a rare monument of plastic vision and dignity, impressed in broad and simple planes, until the subject stands out massive, compelling and alive. Choudhury has learned and combined the lessons of Rodin and of the Indian sculptural archetypes; his works are statuesque epics of fecundity, strength and delicate idealism.” [Rao, P.R. Ramachandra [1943]. Choudhury & His Art. Bombay: New Book Company; p.13] An Important and Rare Sculpture from an Important Collection