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

90 Tyeb Mehta 1925-2009 Study of Bull Charcoal on paper, 1997 S/d in English ‘Tyeb 97’ l.r. Inscribed in English ‘Study’ t.l. 13.0 x 9.6 in (32.9 x 24.5 cm) Provenance Private New Delhi-based Collection; previously from the Collection of an old Industrial Kolkata-based family Illustrative Reference See Hoskote, Ranjit (Text) TYEB MEHTA: Ideas Images Exchanges. New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery 2005; pp.280-85 for similar drawings by the artists. INR 800,000 – 1,200,000 USD 11,940 – 17,910 “As the discovery of an image, the trussed bull was important for me on several levels. As a statement of great energy… blocked or tied up. The way they tie up the animal’s legs and fling it on the floor of the slaughterhouse before butchering it…you feel something very vital has been lost. The trussed bull also seemed representative of the national condition... the mass of humanity unable to channel or direct its tremendous energies. Perhaps also my own feeling about my early life in a tightly knit, almost oppressive community...” – Tyeb Mehta (in interview with Nikki Ty-Tomkins Seth) rpt. in TYEB MEHTA: Ideas Images Exchanges . New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery 2005; pp.341. Bull Charcoal on paper, 1986 29.8 x 22.0 in (75.7 x 55.9 cm) IMCA Auction #93/ Osian’s New Delhi/ 1 March 2006 (Lot 10) Untitled Charcoal on paper, 1984 28.3 x 21.0 in (71.8 x 53.3 cm) IMCA Auction #33/ Sotheby’s New York/ 5 December 2000 (Lot 95) Untitled Charcoal on paper, 1999 28.5 x 22.0 in (72.5 x 56.0 cm) IMCA Auction #56/ Saffronart.com Online/ 4 December 2002 (Lot 54) Falling Head Charcoal on paper, 1992 23.8 x 18.1 in (60.5 x 46.0 cm) IMCA Auction #78/ Osian’s Mumbai/ 9 February 2005 (Lot 116) Untitled Charcoal on paper, 2001 IMCA Auction #38/ Saffronart.com Online/ 16 May 2001 (Lot 84) Bull Charcoal on paper, 1998 25.4 x 19.7 in (64.5 x 50.0 cm) IMCA Auction #108/ Sotheby’s New York/ 19 September 2006 (Lot 120) Untitled (Study For A Trussed Bull) Charcoal on paper, 1999 19.5 x 23.1 in (49.5 x 58.7 cm) IMCA Auction #235/ Christie’s New York/ 15 September 2010 (Lot 343) Untitled Charcoal on paper, 1992-93 19.4 x 12.6 in (49.4 x 32.0 cm) IMCA Auction #52/ Christie’s New York/ 19 September 2002 (Lot 327) Select Charcoal on Paper Drawings by Tyeb Mehta Please Login to www.osianama.com to have full & free access to the Auction Prices Database 188 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art