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

M anjit b awa 28 July 1941 – 29 December 2008 Bahubali Oil on canvas board, 1986 S/d in English ‘Manjit 86’ on verso 12.0 x 16.2 in (30.2 x 40.4 cm) Provenance Gifted by Manjit Bawa to Prabhas Kejriwal in 1986. ` 1,000,000 – 1,500,000 US$ 20,000 – 30,000 128 1780 1800 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1910 1920 1925 1930 1935 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1980 1990 1995 2000 2005 “For Manjit Bawa, the paintings of Bahubali and Purple Piper were significant works: a turning point in the way he approached the canvas. It was here in 1978 that his experiments in the language of form came to merge with the human figure. It was also here that he began to use a new bold juxtaposition of colour-form and colour-ground. This was as radical a step in his career as was the decision, many years earlier, to revert to the iconic form.” Sen, Geeti [1996]. Image and Imagination: Five Contemporary Artists in India. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing; p.81 [Bahubali, 1978] w asiM R. k aPooR b. 3 January 1951 Still Life (Rickshaw) Oil on canvas, 1986 S/d in English ‘WASIM R. KAPOOR 86’ l.r. Inscribed in English ‘WASIM R. KAPOOR/2, SOOTERKIN STREET CALCUTTAQ-700072 PHONE’ on verso. An exhibition label of Regional Centre, Madras Lalit Kala Academy , National Exhibition of Art 1988’ on verso. 47.6 x 40.1 in (121.0 x 111.8 cm) Provenance Private Collection, New Delhi ` 800,000 – 1,200,000 US$ 16,000 – 24,000 127 269 268 Creative India BENGAL | Calcutta and Modernism 1960 – 1995