Osian's Auction Catalogue The Osianama Series |February 2013

100 1955 49 Sunil Madhav Sen 27 August 1910 – 10 November 1979 Untitled Watercolour on paper pasted on paperboard, 1955 Signed in English ‘Sunil Madhav Sen’ l.r. 18.1 x 8.9 in (46.0 x 22.5 cm) Provenance Private Mumbai-based Collection ` 200,000 – 400,000 US$ 3,640 – 7,280 GBP 2,500 – 5,000 50 Sunil Madhav Sen 27 August 1910 – 10 November 1979 Nun Gouache on newspaper pasted on paperboard, Mid 1950s Signed in English ‘Sunil Madhav Sen’ along lower edge. Inscribed in English ‘A woman / Catalogue No- 314’ on verso 11.4 x 6.8 in (29.0 x 17.2 cm) Provenance Private Mumbai-based Collection ` 200,000 – 400,000 US$ 3,640 – 7,280 GBP 2,500 – 5,000 “I hardly know of any artist who can write as Freely as he paints. I feel so uncomfortable when I am asked to state the methods and principles adopted by me, the social aspirations dominating my works and actually what I want to convey through lines, shades and colours. I believe an artist can not ignore the realities of the world around him. It is out of this faith in life, I have drawn and made most of my studies with the people toiling in fields, factories and offices. I have tried to depict truthfully the joys and sorrows, hopes and despairs of their everyday life.” – Sunil Madhav Sen, rpt. in Mookerjee, Ajit. Modern Indian Art. Calcutta: Oxford Book & Stationery Co., 1956; p. 67 & 73.