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

43 Indian Modern Contemporary Fine Arts Nandalal Bose b. 3 December 1882 – d. 16 April 1966 Durga Slaying Mahisasura Watercolour wash on paper pasted on cardpaper, n.d. 4.9 x 3.0 in (12.5 x 7.7 cm) Signed in Bengali ‘Nand’ l.l. ` 300,000 – 450,000 $ 4,170 – 6,250 Provenance Private Kolkata-based Collector. Published as the back- cover image for the book “Durgamandal”(In Bengali, a collection of writings related to Goddess Durga). Edited by Debayan Chaudhuri. Published by Sudhangshu Shekhar Dey, Dey’s Publishing, Kolkata September 2017. 13 National Art Treasure | Non-Exportable Item Illustrated in actual size The rhythm which emerges from the initial aesthetic impulse may be called life-rhythm; it holds within it the specific features and attributes necessary to give body to that impulse. In a painting its presence can be sensed in a dynamic line, through which you sense its primal pulse-beats. By the virtue of this line the painting gains an integral unity and distinction. Emerging from this primal line other lines course an over-all rhythm throughout the picture surface. Their function is to receive the basic impulse of the life-rhythm, nurture it and canalize it in various ways and directions. By the virtue of this, and the compact network of lines working with and against the basic rhythm, a field of vibration is created, where the life-rhythm can be experienced in every part. Ornamentation or craftsmanship results from substructuring rhythm, like a river into its main streams… Nandalal Bose , rpt. in Vision & Creation. Calcutta: Visva-Bharati Publishing Dept. 1999 [Translated by Kalpati Ganapati Subramanyan from Bengali]; p31 Detailed Artist Biography osianama.com/artists/ nandalal-bose