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

Bengal Landscape Series Watercolour on paperboard, 1916-20 Initialed in English ‘G.T.’ l.l. 5.5 x 7.4 in (13.6 x 18.8 cm) Provenance ‘Family Collection of Shoma Chatterjee. Ms Chatterjee is the daughter of Manindranath Tagore (s/o Samarendranath Tagore, the elder brother to Abanindranath Tagore).’ ` 600,000 – 900,000 US$ 12,000 – 18,000 National Art Treasure Non-Exportable Item 31 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 | Gaganendranath Tagore 71 70 “…despite his being solidly rooted in the city in every way, when he paints the Bengal village, his brush attains a boundless expanse, the sky reaches beyond the horizon as it were, over rice fields and meadows into infinity: even as one who has been in city pent readily loses himself in the peace, quietness and ecstasy of a country holiday. Gaganendranath has painted the boundless rice fields, the temples on the river, the rows of palm and coconut, the hills shrouded in storm and mist, the village in the evening, or the punting boatsman, with the same sympathy and skill as he has painted city roofs bathed in moonlight. It is this intimate communion with both worlds that lent such mystery to his Bengal landscapes and human types.” [Asok Mitra, rpt. in Anand, Mulk Raj [Ed.] [1964]. The Four Initiators of the Contemporary Experimentalism: Gaganendranath Tagore, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher Gil and Rabindranath Tagore. New Delhi: [Essay.JOU] Lalit Kala Contemporary No.2 (LKA); p.8, full article pp.6-14 [G.Tagore] Illustrative reference Parimoo, Ratan [1973]. The Paintings of the Three Tagores: Abanindranath, Gaganendranath & Rabindranath - Chronology and Comparative Study. Baroda: Maharaja Sayajirao, University of Baroda; Figs.162, 164 & 165 [Darjeeling / Himalayan Series, Between 1916-20] g aganendranaTH T agore 18 September 1867 – 14 February 1938 from An important family collection