Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Antiquities Modern Contemporary Fine Arts and Books | April 2017

46 G.R. Santosh 1929-1997 Untitled Gouache on cardpaper, 1957 Signed in Devanagari ‘Santosh’ and dated ‘57’ l.r. 18.9 x 25.0 in (48.0 x 63.5 cm) Condition Major crack on top left and damaged corners Provenance Mumbai-based Private Family Collection; acquired from old Parsi Family Collection INR 800,000 – 1,200,000 USD 11,940 – 17,910 Full double-spread image on title page, pp. 2-3 47 G.R. Santosh 1929-1997 Untitled Gouache on cardpaper, 1957 Signed in Devanagari ‘Santosh’ and dated ‘57’ l.r. 18.9 x 25.0 in (48.0 x 63.5 cm) Provenance Mumbai-based Private Family Collection; acquired from old Parsi Family Collection INR 800,000 – 1,200,000 USD 11,940 – 17,910 Full double-spread image on pp. 100-101 ‘Over the years Santosh had perfected his technique avoiding everything that was obtrusive and unessential. Santosh soon escaped from the banalities of the so-called Kashmir School of Painters and had a fascination for the living people, whom he interpreted skilfully with great sympathy in the language of modern art. He was a skilled craftsman in water colours, oils and lithography. Much of Santosh’s work was experimental, but there was in it a vitality, versatility, a keen feeling for his subject and assurance that bespeak a genuine artist.’ – Hilal Ahmed & Shabir Santosh rpt. in Exhibition of Paintings by G.R. Santosh , L.T.G. Art Gallery ExC 2001. Lots 46 & 47 are Properties Formerly from the Collection of an old Parsi Family Indian Antiquities Modern Contemporary Fine Arts & Books | 99