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

Property formerly from the Chester & Davida Herwitz Collection, USA 78 Rekha Rodwittiya b.1958 I’ll Ask You Tomorrow What You’ve Learned Today Charcoal on paper, 1987 S/d in English ‘Rodwittiya 1987 Baroda’ on verso Titled in English “I’ll ask you tomorrow what you’ve learned today” on verso 42.1 x 31.3 in (107.0 x 79.4 cm) Provenance Private Mumbai-based Collector; formerly part of the Chester & Davida Herwitz Collection, USA INR 700,000 – 1,000,000 USD 10,450 – 15,670 “The hand gestures, the body postures and actions and the gazes of the features, like the contextualized alignment of symbols, imply associating meanings – the motif of an unpeeled banana in the extended palm of the boy in the painting titled The Balcony or the veiled gaze of the faces partially covered with palms in The Tree Doctor exemplify the ironic comment on the sad humour of existential inevitabilities.” – Dr. Shivaji K. Panikker reprinted in Rekha Rodwittiya, A Seagull Exhibition ExC. 1991. “Of late I prefer to keep the emotional expressiveness to the minimum and use the alternative of gesture to contain the meaning. I deliberately keep my faces static, mask-like in their stoic silence. As I see this as a perfect counter-balance to the otherwise animated postures of the bodies.” – Rekha Rodwittiya rpt. in Cymroza Art Gallery ExC 1993. Select Rekha Rodwittiya’s Charcoal on Paper Artworks The Bonsai People Charcoal on paper, 1987 46.9 x 31.7 in (119.0 x 80.4 cm) IMCA Auction #129/ Osian’s New Delhi/ 27 July 2007 (Lot 63) The Monument Charcoal and pastel on paper, 1989 71.4 x 44.5 in (181.0 x 113.0 cm) Theatre Of Puppets Charcoal on paper, 1990 67.7 x 43.7 in (172.0 x 111.0 cm) IMCA Auction #273/ Osian’s Mumbai/ 23 March 2012 (Lot 114) Pilgrims of Pantomine Charcoal on paper, 1990 70.0 x 42.9 in (177.8 x 108.9 cm) Please Login to www.osianama.com to have full & free access to the Auction Prices Database 168 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art