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

But I have not met one whose career as a sculptor is so complete and self-evolved as Bhagat’s and so disarmingly natural. And for this reason, I have always thought that Bhagat is the epitome of the course of contemporary Indian sculpture. A careful study of Bhagat’s sculpture, which is very substantial, would in itself be therefore a study of the vicissitudes, the experimentation in thought and material, the impact and assimilation of ideas from distant shores, and of the inevitable and more consequential struggle and search within. This man, one of the most widely travelled at home, went about quietly, looked around him with wide and wondering eyes, discovering undreamt ofpossibilities: the common cactus, the coconut, for example which resulted in his magnificient series of Nataraja and the Family Tree. – Fabri, Charles (Text by). Bhagat . New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 1986; p54. Indian Antiquities Modern Contemporary Fine Arts & Books | 91