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

63 Indian Modern Contemporary Fine Arts K. H. Ara b. 16 April 1913 – d. 30 June 1985 Untitled (Tribal Women) Oil on canvas, Early 1950s 34.1 x 16.0 in (86.5 x 40.7 cm) Signed ‘ARA’ l.l. ` 1,000,000 – 1,500,000 $ 13,890 – 20,830 Provenance Property from the eminent Hyderabad-based art & artifacts Collection of Shri Moti Lal & Prem Lata Devi Agarwal; acquired from Pune-based Parsi collector during the early 1970s. Thereafter by descent inherited by Ramlal Prakash Agarwal in 1994. 23 ‘With all its various facets, his work has a pervading quality of totality and unity…there is a total grasp of each of his subjects and their moods, a total imaginative creation of reality which is so persuasive that people from all walks of life, from the simple and innocent to the sophisticated and refined, appreciate it without effort. Herein lies the secret of Ara’s success which is, in this semi- desert that is called art life in India, quite unique and spectacular. This unity is not only a technical one expressed in terms of composition and correlation but one of vision and sensibility.’ Rudi von Leyden rpt. In Marg Vol. VI, No.2 ; vpp.52 - 55. Detailed Artist Biography osianama.com/artists/k-h-ara