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

143 Indian Modern Contemporary Fine Arts Sudhir Patwardhan* b. 13 January 1949 Cyclist Acrylic on canvas, 2005 36.1 x 48.0 in (91.8 x 122.0 cm) Inscribed in English ‘Sudhir Patwardhan, Cyclist 2005’ on verso ` 1,000,000 – 1,500,000 $ 13,890 – 20,830 Full DPS image on pp.144-145 Provenance Acquired from Osian’s 23rd March 2012 Auction (Lot 134) by London-based art collector. Published Refer to p.49 for colour illustration of Lot 67 ‘Bridges’ (2005) by Sudhir Patwardhan in [ExC, 2006]. Ranjit Hoskote (Contributor) & Gieve Patel (Contributor). Gieve Patel & Sudhir Patwardhan. [New York: Bose Pacia. CB, pp.68] Refer to p.81 for colour illustration of Lot 67 ‘Cyclist’ by Sudhir Patwardhan in [ExC, 2011]. Neville Tuli (Curator & Essay). Indian Contemporary Art: The Intuitive - Logic Revisited. From the Osian’s Collection at the World Economic Forum, 2011. [Davos, Switzerland: World Economic Forum. CB, 45 pp.112] 67 Detailed Artist Biography osianama.com/artists/ sudhir-patwardhan “The tension of this conflict between involvement and distance underlies all my work. The impulse to greater involvement pushes towards an ‘expressionist’ mode, while the impulse to distance myself from the subject leads to a more complex and ‘classical’ mode. Individual works are of course always a balance between these opposing pulls and reflect the dominance of one or the other need.” Sudhir Patwardhan , Jan. 1993.