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

“In 1969, Jyoti Bhatt, along with Jeram Patel, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Vinodray Patel among others, put together an exhibition called Painters with a Camera in Bombay. Qualifying the camera as a painter’s tool, the artists in this exhibition sought to highlight the non-evidentiary painterly potential of the medium. Jyoti Bhatt’s own contribution to the exhibition made use of the tone - condensing, graphic property of a lith film, the dilating aspects of an enlarger and the cloning properties of a film negative to repeat an image endlessly.In these early experiments with the camera, the image was anchored to portraits of people close to him and photographs of Jyotsna Bhatt, transformed into a strong half-tone graphic presence, featured prominently in this body of work.” – Shukla Sawant quoted and reprinted in [BKC, 2011]. Karode, Roobina (Editor). Jyoti Bhatt: Parallels That Meet – Paintings, Prints, Photographs. New Delhi: Delhi Art Gallery 2007; pp.57 Jyoti Bhatt b. 12 March 1934 Untitled Oil and serigraph on bromide photo-print pasted on masonite board, 1969 S/d in English ‘Jyoti Bhatt 1969 and 1975’ on verso 28.5 x 19.4 in (72.5 x 49.4 cm) Provenance Private Collection, Mumbai Illustrative Reference Karode, Roobina (Editor). Jyoti Bhatt: Parallels That Meet – Paintings, Prints, Photographs. New Delhi: Delhi Art Gallery 2007; pp.57 (col.)/ BOOK.bkc ` 450,000 – 675,000 US$ 7,500 – 11,250 GBP 4500 – 6750 Full image on p. 140 Prabhakar Barwe 16 March 1936 – 6 December 1995 Untitled Gouache on paper, 1975 S/d in Devanagari ‘Prabhakar Barwe 75’ l.l. 22.0 x 17.6 in (55.8 x 44.6 cm) Provenance Private Collection, Mumbai ` 300,000 – 450,000 US$ 5,000 – 7,500 GBP 3000 – 4500 Full image on p. 141 60 61 139 Indian Antiquities, Modern & Contemporary Fine Arts