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

94 Jeram Patel 1930-2016 Untitled Watercolour on paper, 2006 S/d in English ‘JERAM PATEL 06’ l.r. 21.3 x 28.9 in (54.0 x 73.5 cm) Provenance Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda; acquired directly from the Artist’s Studio INR 300,000 – 450,000 USD 4,480 – 6,720 “My work has nothing to do with space and colour; nor does it refer to realities that are relevant and exist outside it. The work emerges on its own accord, has its own connotations, and makes, finds and accommodates its ownexistence, asserting its presencenear andaround with its radiant flavour, like pollen in the air. This fertilizing presence establishes a new identity in one who happens to see the work…In my work I do not want to express these so-called experiences. To try and express the effects of such simple daily experiences in a work of art is stupid innocence, a false judgment of the meaning and place of time - of total, continuous, unending experience or the consciousness of man. No single human experience in life can be a yardstick to measure art or to pass judgement on it. Art is eternal energy, the emergence of form through the ages, form which determines the fundamentals of growth.” - Jeram Patel, quoted and reprinted in Artists Today: East- West Visual Arts Encounter . Bombay: Marg 1987; p.60. 198 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art