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

50 Ramkumar (b.1924) Untitled Oil on canvas, 1972 S/d ‘Ramkumar 72 60x40’ on verso 59.8 x 40.0 in (152.0 x 101.5 cm) Provenance Acquired directly from the artist Ramkumar by Gita Art Gallery; thereafter acquired by the present owner. Illustrative Reference Colour illustration of same series rpt. in Artists Handicrafts Association (Institutional Author). India Art since the Early 40s: A Search for Identity. Madras: Artists Handicrafts Association, 1974. p.89. INR 4,400,000 – 6,600,000 USD 64,706 – 97,059 Instead of depending on textural effects and the vitality carefully with the spatula, Ram now depends on colour planes, and multiple perspectives in which colour is daringly and dynamically used, often very thin, and almost like a wash, and not as a foil for textural effects but as a kind of sprung rhythm that tensions the theme and carries within its body its own symbolism. Richard Bartholomew rpt. in ‘The Abstract Principle in the paintings of Ram Kumar’ , LKC 19 & 20, 1975, p. 11.