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NOVEMBER 2016 | THE TIES THAT BIND
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K G SUBRAMANYAN
(1924 - 2016)
a) Untitled (Figure Group I)
Initialled in Tamil (lower right)
Reverse painting in acrylic on glass
18 x 14.5 in (45.7 x 36.7 cm)
EXHIBITED:
Calcutta Metropolitan Festival of Art
, Santiniketan:
Kala Bhavan, 1997
b) Untitled (Reverie)
Initialled in Tamil (lower right)
Reverse painting in acrylic on glass
18 x 14.5 in (45.5 x 36.7 cm)
$ 18,185 - 27,275
Rs 12,00,000 - 18,00,000
(Set of two)
This lot is offered at NO RESERVE
PROVENANCE:
Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
Private Collection, Delhi
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K G Subramanyan’s focus on small canvases
from the 1980s onwards led him to create
diptychs and polyptychs. Over the decades, he
moved from an anti-narrative approach that
enhanced a purely visual experience, towards
grids placed together that hinted at narrative
potential.
R Siva Kumar writes that his works “...suggest that
for him there are only tools, ideas and emotions,
no permanent rules or fixed conventions, and
everything is in the service of expression and
communication under the broad ambit of a
personal language. And the two, expression and
communication, are not antithetical for him.”
(R Siva Kumar, “Regarding the Drawings of K.G.
Subramanyan,”
K G Subramanyan Drawings
,
Mumbai: The Guild, p. 17)
PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN, NEW DELHI
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MANJIT BAWA
(1941 - 2008)
Untitled
Signed and dated 'Manjit Bawa 99' (lower right)
1999
Pen and ink on paper
14 x 20.75 in (35.5 x 52.5 cm)
$ 9,095 - 12,125
Rs 6,00,000 - 8,00,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired directly from the artist