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NOVEMBER 2016 | THE TIES THAT BIND
PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN,
NEW DELHI
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NATARAJ SHARMA
(b. 1958)
Wasteland (Gurgaon)
Signed, dated and inscribed '"WASTELAND
(GURGAON)"/ Nataraj/ BARODA/ 2004' (on the
reverse of each panel)
2004
Oil on board
71.75 x 106.5 in (182.5 x 270.6 cm)
$ 27,275 - 36,365
Rs 18,00,000 - 24,00,000
(Triptych)
PROVENANCE:
Nature Morte, New Delhi
Bose Pacia, New York
EXHIBITED:
Vapi Horse and Other Stories
, New Delhi: Nature Morte,
2004
Endless Terrain
, New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 2005
Indian Summer: La Jeune Scene Artistique Indienne
, Paris:
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 14
June 2005 - 15 February 2006
PUBLISHED:
Yashodhara Dalmia and Salima Hashmi eds.,
Memory
,
Metaphor, Mutations: The Contemporary Art of India and
Pakistan
, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007
This photorealist painting by Sudarshan Shetty
uses interior architectural space as the setting from
which to explore the theme of human absence. The
photorealist style enhances the stark emptiness of
actual andmetaphorical space. Shetty creates a feeling
of silence and solitude through the conspicuous
lack of the human figure in a space that is made for
human habitation. “Many of his works evoke strongly
a fleeting memory of another space, other interiors,
long lost except to that special faculty of memory
that we all possess,” (Radhika Desai, “All that is solid
melts into air,”
Af-fair: 15 Contemporary Indian Artists
,
Dubai: 1x1 Art Gallery, 2008, p. 57)
“I am interested in the idea of absence, a human absence, of being
elsewhere. I think most of us are condemned to be elsewhere: I
embrace this predicament and rejoice in it.”
SUDARSHAN SHETTY
112
SUDARSHAN SHETTY
(b. 1961)
Untitled
Signed and dated 'Sudarshan Shetty 06' (on the reverse)
2006
Acrylic on canvas
47.25 x 71.5 in (119.7 x 181.7 cm)
$ 10,000 - 15,000
Rs 6,60,000 - 9,90,000
PROVENANCE:
Saffronart, 16 September 2008, lot 161