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

Chintamoni kaR Lots 77 – 80 “The body of work that Chintamoni Kar has produced is remarkable for its versatility and stylistic range. Mr. Kar is one of the very few artists of the twentieth century who has sculptural masterpieces and paintings in a multiplicity of styles. If it is recognized that the construction of style is absolutely central to the discourse of art, Mr. Kar’s stylistic pluralism alone makes him one of the great artistic minds of the century. Like the authorial masks of Kierkegaard, the style of Mr. Kar resists being incarcerated in the analytic grips of conceptual closures. Attending to the historicity of the artist-biography, Mr. Kar’s coherent creation and presentation of stylistic layers approach the astonishing pluralism of Picasso’s visual world.” [Dr. Saranindranath Tagore, rpt. in Sengupta, Gautam [Director] [1996]. Drawing, Painting & Sculpture by Chintamoni Kar from Bhaskar Bhavan: Retrospective Exhibition (6 - 15 March 1996). Calcutta: [ExC.] Archaeology & Museum, Govt. of Bengal; p.2]