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

86 Ganesh Pyne 1937-2013 Untitled Pen and ink on paper, 1992 Signed in Bengali ‘Ganesh Pyne’c.r 11.4 x 9.0 in (29.0 x 22.8 cm) Provenance Private Delhi-based Collector; previously acquired from Chitrakoot Art Gallery, who in turn acquired it directly from the artist INR 200,000 – 300,000 USD 2,990 – 4,480 87 Ganesh Pyne 1937-2013 Untitled Jotting on paper, 1992 Signed in Bengali ‘Ganesh Pyne’ c.l. 11.3 x 8.9 in (28.8 x 22.6 cm) Provenance Private Delhi-based Collector; previously acquired from Chitrakoot Art Gallery, who in turn acquired it directly from the artist INR 200,000 – 300,000 USD 2,990 – 4,480 “A glimpse of the notebooks reveals a stream-of-consciousness process. As the image takes concrete 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. 182 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art