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

Ganesh Pyne 11 June 1937 – 12 March 2013 Untitled Pen & ink on paper, 1999 Signed in Bengali 11.6 x 8.8 in (29.4 x 22.4 cm) Provenance Private Collector, Mumbai ` 240,000 – 360,000 US$ 4,000 – 6,000 GBP 3,400 – 3,600 “A glimpse of the notebooks reveals a stream-of-consciousness process. As the image takes concrtete shape, he continues to develop it. Pyne is seen at his purest in the notebooks. The lines are precise, controlled, the drawing strong and potent. The images are enigmatic, lyrical, melancholy and haunted. One can see in these sketches, stripped off the seductions of colour, the architectonic quality that he wants to convey in the structuring of his images. And then [with] the cross-hatchings he creates shadowy, mysterious, even terrifying dimensions.” – Ella Datta, rpt. in Ganesh Pyne: His Life & Times. Kolkata: CIMA 1998; p57. “These are personal works when an artist gains liberty to paint for himself ” he says of his watercolours... “I do something which is essentially whimsical.There is no order. I release myself. When there is a sense of being released, I simultaneously experience a sense of bondage. Very privately an artist wants to free himself from any kind of judgement coming from outside.” – Dolly Narang, rpt. in Ganesh Pyne:The Village Gallery 1994 ExC. Ganesh Pyne 11 June 1937 – 12 March 2013 Untitled Pen & ink on paper, 1999 11.6 x 8.8 in (29.4 x 22.4 cm) Provenance Private Collector, Mumbai ` 180,000 – 270,000 US$ 3,000 – 4,500 GBP 1,800 – 2,700 Lot 75 74 75 161 Indian Antiquities, Modern & Contemporary Fine Arts