Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Modern Fine Arts | February 2019

114 | Osian’s – Connoisseurs of Art 51 SATISH GUJRAL b. 25 December 1925 Unitled Oil on canvas, nd Signed in Devanagari ‘Gujral’ l.l. 24.2 x 35.7 in (61.4 x 90.8 cm) Provenance Property of a private Mumbai- based Collector INR 800,000 – 1,200,000 US$ 11,268 – 16,901 “...The canvas comes alive with a different resurgence of colour and line, a new mix of sound and rhythm, the abstract almost conferring with the figurative, not overlapping it. The superimposition of one compositional whole does not blot out the other behind it. He allows it to seep through...’” – “ Passage from Pain to Peace ” by Uma Vasudev, The Tribune, 5th October 2003 Illustrative Reference Similar work illustrated in “Satish Gujral”- An Artography. Text by Gayatri Sinha, Santo Datta and Gautam Bhatia. National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. Roli Books, 2006; p. 143.