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

Ramkumar b. 23 September 1924 Untitled Acrylic on canvas, 2011 S/d in English ‘Ram Kumar 11’ on verso 24.0 x 36.0 in (61.0 x 91.4 cm) Provenance Private Collection, Mumbai ` 1,800,000 – 2,700,000 US$ 30,000 – 45,000 GBP 18000 – 27000 “The counterpoint between city and landscape has long exercised Ram Kumar: to shuttle between them is to know and traverse the discontinuity between home and world.The city, shored up from river- silt, vulnerable to the river’s sullen tides and periodic floods, would appear to symbolize the life of the householder, trammeled by duties, circumscribed by ritual, susceptible to anxiety. The landscape, on the other hand, with its drifts of ice and sand, suggests the open breadth of the cosmos, where the renouncer may wander at will.” – Ranjit Hoskote, rpt. in ‘The poet of the Visionary Landscape’, Ram Kumar: A Journey Within, Vadehra Art Gallery, 1996. 82 End of Auction 173 Indian Antiquities, Modern & Contemporary Fine Arts