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

68 # Ramkumar (b.1924) Untitled Acrylic on paper, 1993 S/d ‘Ram Kumar’93’ on verso 23.0 x 36.0 in (58.4 x 91.4 cm) Provenance A Connecticut based Collection, who acquired the artwork from Sotheby’s New York September 2007 Auction. INR 800,000 – 1,200,000 USD 12,500 – 18,750 If Ram Kumar’s abstractions still have a strange power to move us, it is because they are not built on denial or negation; they carry within them all the stains and bruises of the preceding periods, their sense of grief and solitude, but now they have been somehow transcended; lifted on a different light, where even the whites and greys have a kind of luminosity Nirmal Verma rpt. in Ram Kumar: A Retrospective, ExC, NGMA & Vadehra Gallery, 1993. Indian Modern Fine Arts | 143