Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Modern Contemporary Fine Arts | October 2018

125 Indian Modern Contemporary Fine Arts Ramkumar b. 23 September 1924 – d. 18 April 2018 Untitled Oil on canvas, 1979 24.0 x 20.3 in (61.0 x 51.5 cm) S/d in Devanagari ‘Ramkumar 79’ l.r. Label ‘Camel Aug 1979, Fine Grain 1006, Oil Painting Canvas, 20 24’ on verso ` 2,000,000 – 3,000,000 $ 27,780 – 41,670 Provenance Acquired directly from the artist Ramkumar in the year 1979 by a Mumbai-based art collector. This Lot will be accompanied with a signed Certificate of Authenticity from the artist. 53 detail Ram Kumar’s paintings are built of structural parts, wedges, segments, angular drifts of paint which, while they have a directional movement, and suggest a sweeping view, cohere as a fabric of colour. This design is certain and explicit. So is the colour with its juxtaposed intensities and its nuances of texture. The browns, greys and blues, the occasional green or orange are areas of positive sensation. They are also premises of suggestion – indicative of landforms, stretches of water and sky, passage of clouds, valley, ranges of hills, qualities of light. Bonded together and active as painting they project, when seen in consonance and as a concert of tones, a palpable mood. Richard Bartholomew rpt in Art Heritage 1984-85 , p.97. Detailed Artist Biography osianama.com/artists/ ramkumar