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“The landscape haunted me for quite some time. Later when I tried
to paint my impressions on canvas, I could not imagine any colours.
The eternal silence of a wasted, barren earth which refused to
compromise with man could not be visualised in any other colours
except grey and black and white.”
RAM KUMAR
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RAM KUMAR
(b. 1924)
Autumn Landscape
Signed in Devnagari (lower right); inscribed 'RAM KUMAR/
AUTUMN LANDSCAPE' (on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
29.75 x 39.5 in (75.3 x 100.5 cm)
$ 46,875 ‒ 62,500
Rs 30,00,000 ‒ 40,00,000
PROVENANCE:
Saffronart, 1‒4 December, 2003, lot 28