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

C hitRavanu M azuMdaR b. 13 October 1956 Untitled Acrylic on canvas, 1995 Signed in English ‘C MAZUMDAR’ l.r. Inscribed in English ‘Chitravanu Mazumdar’ on verso 56.9 x 38.5 in (144.5 x 98.0 cm) Provenance Private Collection, Mumbai ` 800,000 – 1,200,000 US$ 16,000 – 24,000 134 1780 1800 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1910 1920 1925 1930 1935 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1980 1990 1995 2000 2005 g anesh h aloi b. 1 July 1936 Untitled Gouache on handmade paper, 1993 Signed in Bengali l.r. 15.6 x 29.2 in (39.5 x 74.2 cm) Provenance Private Collection, New Delhi ` 800,000 – 1,200,000 US$ 16,000 – 24,000 Full image for Lot 133 on pp.274-75. 133 ‘I saw Ganesh Haloi’s works for the first time nearly twenty-five years ago and was very much impressed by his technical excellence in the handling of watercolour. Besides being able to handle the difficult transparent medium with absolute facility, the young painter also composed with unhampered, easy assurance and shimmering richness of colour which added a poetic lyricism to his works. His paintings then were really beautiful - not pretty, but beautiful. His latest compositions are still beautiful, but with a marked difference. They are the works of a thoughtful, matured artist. Meditation has replaced poetic lyricism and a subtle abstraction gives his present works, inspite of their modest dimensions, - an air of monumentality and power. He has abandoned the specific visual reality of a subject and now sets out, instead, to reveal and express with deep emotion the pictorial possibilities of the rhythm of spaces that he realises in the various oppositions and continuities of forms. On his own, through accumulated aesthetic experience, Ganesh Haloi has discovered what Hiroshige once said - ‘Art is not what we see, but how we see it.’’ (Sushil Mukherjee, rpt. in Ganesh Haloi: Jehangir Art Gallery Gouache ExC.1993.) Illustrative Reference Sengupta, Kajal & Kejriwal, Dr. Prokash Kejriwal [Eds.] [1996]. H.K. Kejriwal Collection 1830 - 1995. Bangalore: Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath; p.68 [Chitrovanu Mazumdar, 1995]