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

Atul Dodiya b. 20 January 1959 Winter Light Oil on canvas, 1987 Signed in English ‘ATUL’ on verso Inscribed in English“ATUL B. DODIYA,‘WINTER LIGHT’ OIL. 1987, 51CM x 51CM” on verso 19.7 x 19.7 in (50.1 x 50.1 cm) Provenance Private Collection, Mumbai ` 1,500,000 – 2,250,000 US$ 25,000 – 37,500 GBP 15,000 – 22,500 “Dodiya’s world is self-confident. He presents his characters without irony, nostalgia or rage. He is not defensive about their social status, which is that of the comfortable middle class. There is no apology in these works or anything… We see the exactness with which a figure is stationed at a certain point, the meticulousness of one tone of colour against another, the almost finicky measuring of distances between objects. All these function as reverbrating foci against each other.” – Gieve Patel, rpt. in Atul Dodiya Gallery Chemould ExC 1989. 76 162