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PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT PRIVATE COLLECTION, MUMBAI
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RAM KUMAR
(b.1924)
Untitled
Signed 'RAM KUMAR' (on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
33 x 44.5 in (83.7 x 112.9 cm)
$ 93,750 ‒ 125,000
Rs 60,00,000 ‒ 80,00,000
R
am Kumar’s landscapes evolved from realistic representations of seen sites to abstract interpretations of
places that are reduced to aerial views and planes of colour colliding into each other. He became more
interested in the mood of the space than any rendering of actual place. Architectural forms gradually
became less recognisable from the 1960s. The present lot, which could be Benares or Ladakh, is composed of colour
planes which meander and slope, creating movement. A door or window, a post, roofs and walls are still somewhat
recognisable, but the composition consists mostly of suggestions of a river, snow, and mountainous slopes. The
Cubist interplay of juxtaposed planes of colour merge with a clear tendency toward abstraction in the present lot.
“All the places I visited impacted my work, whether it was Greece
or Ladakh, Paris, Venice, Prague or Baghdad.”
RAM KUMAR