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

‘These are figurative pictures in the conventional sense of the term. All these are flat and linear compositions with neither background nor foregrounds… Though the contour lines are geometrical he takes pain to emphasize the skeletal structure of the figures to present them in their inner nakedness. The figural gestures are at their minimum, yet he manages to present them in various action postures... The figures are devoid of all temporal identity.’ – Pranabranjan Ray, rpt. in Somnath Hore, New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi 1981. Somnath Hore 13 April 1921 – 28 June 2006 Untitled Watercolour and crayon on paper, 1982 Initialled & dated in English ‘S 16 1 82’ l.r. 10.1 x 14.3 in (25.6 x 36.4 cm) Provenance Private Individual Collector, Chennai Illustrative References Somnath Hore. A.K. Dutta. New Delhi: LKA, p24. Similar images illustrated in Somnath Hore. New Delhi: LKA, pl.3, 17, 21 & 22. ` 300,000 – 450,000 US$ 5,000 – 7,500 GBP 3,000 – 4,500 M.F. Husain 17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011 Untitled Watercolour on paper, nd (Late 1970s / Early 1980s) Signed in English & Urdu ‘Husain’ l.r. 18.7 x 13.8 in (47.5 x 35.0 cm) Condition Crease lines present Provenance Private Collection, Mumbai ` 450,000 – 675,000 US$ 7,500 – 11,250 GBP 4500 – 6750 68 67 150