Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Antiquities and Modern and Contemporary Fine Arts | June 2015

S.K. Bakre 10 November 1920 – 18 December 2007 Untitled Oil on jute canvas, nd (Late 1950s / Early 1960s) 30.0 x 15.7 in (76.2 x 39.9 cm) Provenance Private Collection, Mumbai ` 600,000 – 900,000 US$ 10,000 – 15,000 GBP 6000 – 9000 “As the wall of a building gradually comes into being through layers of lime and paint, a piece of sculpture or a painting has to attain the requisite thickness of surface, which in its ideal state can be connotated as the texture of the original skin. I think one can extend this metaphor and say that sculpture or paintings progress towards life like a creature in the womb and at a particular point in its journey towards movement, as it were it stabilizes itself once for all. Hence the apparently indecisive rough surface and calculated erosion.” – S.K. Bakre, quoted and reprinted in [BKA, 2011] Dalmia, Yashodhara. The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives. New Delhi: OUP; p.197. 42 107 Indian Antiquities, Modern & Contemporary Fine Arts