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

90 OSIAN’s – Connoisseurs of Art Untitled Watercolour on textured paper, 1961 21.7 x 14.6 in (55.0 x 37.0 cm) S/d ‘Nasreen 61’ l.r. ` 1,200,000 – 1,800,000 $ 16,670 – 25,000 Provenance Acquired directly from the artist Nasreen Mohamedi during the early1960s (after her 1961 Exhibition at Bal Chabbda’s Gallery 59) by Mumbai-based art collector. Another Nasreen Mohamedi painting from this Collection was sold at the Saffronart.com 21st September 2017 (Lot 16) Sale. Nasreen Mohamedi b. 5 September 1937 – d. 1990 36 Nasreen’s drawings raise the question of perspective in several different ways. Perspective as a ubiquitous premise of thought; and the vanishing point as the flip-face of imagist art that is mostly representational and anthropomorphic and full of object presence, blocking the horizon by foregrounded bodies. Geeta Kapur, ‘Elegy for an unclaimed beloved: Nasreen Mohamedi (1937 – 1990), rpt. in Nasreen in Retrospect. Bombay, 1995; p17