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

Gopal Sanyal b. 25 July 1933 Street Singer Oil on canvas, 1972 S/d in English ‘gopal 72’ l.r. 44.2 x 33.3 in (112.2 x 84.5 cm) Provenance Private Collection, New Delhi ` 600,000 – 900,000 US$ 10,000 – 15,000 GBP 6,000 – 9,000 “The paintings he has executed may be a few in number but they speak of Gopal Sanyal’s passion for colour and his extraordinary skill in handling paint. Gopal Sanyal surely produces concords with pigments but his compositions are by no means pretty. He violently distorts forms to express his feeling through them… The naivete of the folk art in forms and the Cezannean sophistication in matiere makes his painting not only a coalition of East and West but also a combination of the past and the present.” – Ahi Bhusan Malik, reprinted in Paintings & Drawings of Gopal Sanyal : Max Mueller 1977 ExC. 54 LOTS 52 TO 55 REPRESENT ARTWORKS BY FOUR LEADING MEMBERS OF THE CALCUTTA PAINTERS GROUP NIKHIL BISWAS, RABIN MONDAL, GOPAL SANYAL & PROKASH KARMAKAR . A BRILLIANT PEN & INK DRAWING BY THE INSPIRATIONAL AND INFLUENTIAL CALCUTTA BORN ARTIST - NIKHIL BISWAS, LEADING FOUNDER LIGHT OF THE CALCUTTA PAINTERS AND SOCIETY OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS 128