Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Modern Fine Arts | June 2017

43 # F.N. Souza 1924 – 2002 Head Each ink on paper, 1965 Each s/d ‘Souza 65’ t.l. a. 9.6 x 7.4 in (24.4 x 18.7 cm) b. 9.9 x 7.4 in (25.1 x 18.7 cm) Provenance Private USA-based Collection; previously purchased from Sotheby’s, New York. INR 200,000 – 300,000 USD 3,125 – 4,688 Set of 2 44 # F.N. Souza 1924 – 2002 Head a. Ink on paper, 1966 S/d ‘Souza 66’ t.l. 9.5 x 7.4 in (24.2 x 18.7 cm) b. Ink on paper, 1965 S/d ‘Souza 65’ t.l. 10.4 x 7.4 in (26.4 x 18.7 cm) Provenance Private USA-based Collection; previously purchased from Sotheby’s, New York. INR 200,000 – 300,000 USD 3,125 – 4,688 Set of 2 45 Satish Gujral (b.1925) Untitled Pen & ink on paper, 1967 S/d in Devanagari ‘Satish 67’ t.l. 10.0 x 14.0 in (27.4 x 38.2 cm) Provenance Purchased directly from the artist by Dhoomimal Art Gallery. Illustrative Reference Black & White Illustration in The World of Satish Gujral: In His Own Words. [UBS Publishers: 1993]; p.9. Further, drawings from the same series illustrated between pp.9 to 23. Illustration of same series rpt. in Amrita Jhaveri (Author). Guide to 101 Modern & Contemporary Indian Artists. Mumbai: India Book House, 2005. p.34-5 (oil pencil on rice paper). (9788175084230) INR 300,000 – 450,000 USD 4,688 – 7,031 I have always been more interested in drawing, to let the hand flow. I believe that art is like a signature, not in its content, but the way you write it…so as I grew the more anti-content I became, as did my art, because I believe that the artist does not think, they feel. Ideas do not emerge in the form of ideas, it comes to them in form, and form is space and how it is drawn, and from this drawing it is recognized what is happening within the artist. Hence the flow, the intensity of the drawing reveals the artist. Satish Gujral, in conversation with Neville Tuli, 5th September 1993, New Delhi. Lot 45 Indian Modern Fine Arts | 107