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

92 Zarina Hashmi b.1937 Delhi II & Delhi III Woodcut (3/25), 2000 S/d in English ‘Zarina 2000’ l.r. Titled in English ‘Delhi II’ l.c. 16.9 x 12.7 in (42.8 x 32.2 cm) Provenance Private Mumbai-based Collector; formerly acquired from a Delhi-based Gallery in 2000 INR 200,000 – 300,000 USD 2,990 – 4,480 Set of 2 “The work of Mohamedi’s (Nasreen) exact contemporary and friend, Zarina (Hashmi), is another exception, coming closest to the spiritual adventures of the line that is one aspect of Mohamedi’s nonobjective art. The abstract dimension of Zarina’s work was more prominent during the early to mid-1970s, when she was experimenting, in a variety of printmaking techniques, with the possibilities of the grid and the vectorial dynamics of lines and tangents as part of a conscious dialogue with Mohamedi’s exploration of this terrain. However, Zarina’s pursuit of the purely formal aspect of the graphic act came progressively to be underscored by the subject positions inscribed therein. While she shares Mohamedi’s propensity for a drastically reduced set of linear notations, the resulting configurations are hardly intransitive, without object: the lines signify, in the way that the boundaries of a map signal a territorial limit.” Deepak Ananth rpt. in ‘Nasreen Mohamedi: Waiting Is A Part of Intense Living’ Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia. 2015-16; p.275-76. 192 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art