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Sakti Burman’s paintings are colourful and vibrant and
draw from a wide variety of sources. Based on his own
dreams, the French Impressionists, as well as the poetry
of Rabindranath Tagore and Charles Baudelaire, they
suggest the peeling paint of Greek frescoes. His unique
marbling technique is seen here in a composition that
sets figures from real and imagined mythologies into
frames that imply structure. “The impact is not much
unlike a surrealist inwardness ensured by a mechanism of
aesthetic ordering of a topsy‒turvy pictorial world...there
are often clearly marked areas of smooth and textured
passages of paint, played off one against the other, as a
chequered colour groundwork for the image to convey
a pure imaginative experience of strong visual sensation.”
(Manasij Majumder,
Sakti Burman: Dreamer on the Ark
,
Bombay: Pundole Art Gallery, 2001, pp. 128‒129)
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ANJOLIE ELA
MENON
(b. 1940)
The Prophet
Signed 'Anjolie Ela Menon' (upper
right) and bearing label inscribed
'"The Prophet" / Anjolie Ela Menon
‒ 1972' (on the reverse)
1972
Oil on board
47.75 x 23.5 in (121 x 60 cm)
$ 20,000 ‒ 30,000
Rs 12,80,000 ‒ 19,20,000
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's, New York, 29 March 2006,
lot 57
EXHIBITED:
Remaking the Modern II ‒ London
Summer 2014 Exhibition
, London: Alon
Zakim Fine Art, 6‒9 June 2014
PROPERTY FROM AN EMINENT
PRIVATE COLLECTION, MUMBAI
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SAKTI BURMAN
(b. 1935)
Automne
Signed 'SAKTi BURMAN' (lower
left); inscribed and signed
'AUTOMNE (overwritten on
'FEmmE Bleue') / SAKTi BURMAN'
(on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
35.75 x 28.25 in (90.8 x 71.6 cm)
$ 43,750 ‒ 50,000
Rs 28,00,000 ‒ 32,00,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired from Pundole Art Gallery,
Mumbai
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