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

24 Sunil Madhav Sen (1910 – 1979) Girl Oil on paper pasted on board, 1950 Signed ‘Sunil Madhav Sen’ l.r. Signed ‘Sunil Madhav Sen 1950’ l.c. on board Titled ‘GIRL’ on board 8.1 x 3.9 in (20.5 x 9.8 cm) Provenance Acquired directly from the Artist by Delhi Art Gallery; thereafter acquired by Osian’s - Connoisseurs of Art and sold to Private Mumbai-based Collector in 2005. INR 200,000 – 300,000 USD 3,125 – 4,688 I believe, an artist cannot ignore the realities of the world around him. It is out of this faith in life; I have drawn and made most of my studies with people toiling in fields, factories and offices. I have tried to depict truthfully the joys and sorrows, hopes and despairs of their everyday life. Sunil Madhav Sen, rpt. in Modern art in India, Oxford Books, 1956, p. 73. Sunil Madhav Sen has never been trained in any art school nor has he had a particular teacher in painting…He went to the Santhal hills and to Bhutan, to the tribes of the Northern border of India to observe the beauty of nature:landscape, tribe-life, folk-dance and above all faces and profiles of women. There are the abstract curves and lines of modern graphic art developed in Western schools, the strong unmixed colours of European expressionism; but there is too, one line (for example, of the nose) and one colour (of the eye) which demonstrate that this particular head could not be painted but in India and by an Indian artist. rpt. in Marg Vol.6, No.4,; p58. 64 | Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art