Original Prints Auction 7 - 8 March 2018
Modern & Contemporary Art Auction 14 - 15 March 2018
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Original Prints Auction 7 - 8 March 2018
Modern & Contemporary Art Auction 14 - 15 March 2018
www.prinseps.com 4 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 5 DIRECTOR'S NOTE
We are excited to share with you our upcoming Spring 2018 auctions.
The first, an ‘Original Prints’ auction. Original art works that were incepted as prints using print-making techniques as Etching, Serigraphy, Lithography, Woodcuts, etc. This is the first such auction in India, the first auction devoted to solely to ‘Original Prints’. Certainly, in overseas markets such as the US, many price records for art works are held by serigraphs of Andy Warhol. Here a distinction needs to be made, between ‘original prints’ and mechanically reproduced prints, the two are very different.
This auction includes Zarina Hashmi (a version currently on display at NY MET) and Akbar Padamsee etchings from the 1960's. Possibly the most iconic work of Ramanendranath Chakraborty. Husain's ‘Benaras’, the entire set of eight serigraphs created in 1973, are a superb example of his artistry.
The second, our Modern and Contemporary, auction also focuses on a broad spectrum of artists. Much of the auction has art works that have never been seen before. While each work has been carefully curated, We will highlight a few here. Our Jamini Roy 'Alpana' (Flower as landscape), a double sided work on plywood, used to hang at the entrance of all of his exhibitions including at his older 'bagh-bazar' residence. The seated lady (verso) is from his early experiments and executed in the style of a 'Kalighat Pat'. This dates the work to the beginning of his artistic career as he abandoned commissioned portraits - and the very beginnings of modernism in India.
'Wounds' is the language of Somnath Hore's abstraction. The paper pulp based ‘Wounds’ series has been displayed at the Tate. We present a rare ‘Wounds’ bronze sculpture created by the extension of the same wax process and made subsequent to the Bangladesh war.
Two exceptionally rare and early Manjit Bawa’s are on offer, one from 1977 – a representation of a “form” . These "forms" can be clearly seen in his serigraphs from the same year. The other a superb pastel on paper from 1991 depicting a bull. Lastly, a letter from Rabindranath Tagore introducing Abanindranath Tagore as an artist – a superb historical artefact! The auction includes rare works by A.P. Santhanaraj and L. Munuswamy – masters from the South .
While a few have been discussed above, all art works selected have been for a special reason(s). We leave the process of further discovery and research to you. We at Prinseps would love to have further conversations on any of the art works.
Indrajit Chatterjee [email protected] WhatsApp(9810213922) Original Prints Auction 7 - 8 March 2018
Modern & Contemporary Art Auction 14 - 15 March 2018
Both auctions are open for proxy bidding
Both auctions commence for live bidding at 10am and end as per schedule from 7pm the next day
7 Original Prints Auction 7 - 8 March 2018
8 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 Hex digests of SHA512 hash, of artwork images from the Original Prints auction, used to refer to respective artworks in a cryptographically secured and trusted distributed ledger platform.
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9 Original Prints Auction 7 - 8 March 2018
10 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 11 MUKUL DEY LOT #2
MUKUL DEY LOT #1
RAMENDRANATH CHAKRABORTY LOT #3 RAMENDRANATH CHAKRABORTY LOT #4
12 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 LALU PRASAD SHAW LOT #6 BHUPEN KHAKHAR LOT #5
GULAM MOHAMMED SHEIKH LOT #8
LALU PRASAD SHAW LOT #7
For details visit prinseps.com 13 GULAM MOHAMMED SHEIKH LOT #9
THOTA VAIKUNTAM LOT #10
LAXMA GOUD LOT #11 LAXMA GOUD LOT #12
14 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 ZARINA HASHMI LOT #14
ZARINA HASHMI LOT #13
JOGEN CHOWDHURY LOT #16
FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA LOT #15 BHUPEN KHAKHAR LOT #17 BHUPEN KHAKHAR P. PERUMAL LOT #18 LOT #19
Portfolio 12 LOT #20
16 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 SOMNATH HORE SOMNATH HORE LOT #21 LOT #22
CHITTAPROSAD BHATTACHARYA LOT #24
RAJENDRA DHAWAN LOT #23
For details visit prinseps.com 17 JAGDISH SWAMINATHAN LOT #25 JAGDISH SWAMINATHAN LOT #26
AKBAR PADAMSEE LOT #27 AKBAR PADAMSEE LOT #28 AKBAR PADAMSEE MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN LOT #29 LOT #31
MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN LOT #30
19 MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN LOT #32
20 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 For details visit prinseps.com 21 ANJOLIE ELA MENON ANUPAM SUD LOT #33 LOT #34
HAREN DAS LOT #35
22 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 PORTFOLIO LOT #36
23 Modern & Contemporary Art Auction 14 - 15 March 2018
24 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 Hex digests of SHA512 hash, of artwork images from the Modern and Contemporary Art Auction, used to refer to respective artworks in a cryptographically secured and trusted distributed ledger platform.
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25 26 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 Modern & Contemporary Art Auction 14 - 15 March 2018
27 NATIONAL ART TREASURE - NON EXPORTABLE
1. AMIYA ROY
Untitled
Unsigned Mosaic on board Circa 1970 15 x 10 in.
ESTIMATE INR 1,00,000 - 2,00,000
28 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 29 30 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 31 NATIONAL ART TREASURE - NON EXPORTABLE
2. JAMINI ROY (1887 - 1972)
Untitled (Alpana / Seated Lady)
Signed lower right Tempera on plywood Circa 1930 35.5 x 17.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 10,00,000 - 15,00,000
PROVENANCE Estate of Jamini Roy
PUBLISHED Jamini Roy - His Life In Art, Sandip Sarkar (pg 7)
LOT DESCRIPTION Flower As "Alpana" design on front. Seated lady in the style of Kalighat Pat verso. As per his family this painting was always displayed at the entrance of wherever Jamini Roy held his exhibitions
32 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 33 3. KRISHNA SHAMRAO KULKARNI (1916 - 1994)
Untitled
Unsigned Acrylic on tin Circa 1980 23.5 x 23.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 3,00,000 - 4,00,000
4. GANESH HALOI (b. 1936)
Untitled (Abstract)
Signed bottom right Gouache on paper Circa 2001 9.5 x 9.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 3,00,000 - 4,00,000
34 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 35 5. LAXMAN PAI (b. 1926)
DANCE FORMS No. 1
Signed bottom left Oil on canvas 1967 49.5 x 37.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 5,00,000 - 8,00,000
PROVENANCE Acquired directly from artist Private Collection, Delhi
36 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 37 6. AKBAR PADAMSEE (b. 1928)
Gandhi as a young lawyer
Signed top left Watercolor on paper 2005 22 x 14 in.
ESTIMATE INR 8,00,000 - 10,00,000
PROVENANCE Acquired directly from artist Private Collection, Delhi
38 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018
7. MANU PAREKH (b. 1939)
Untitled (Frowning Man)
Signed bottom right, Dated 5-6-82 Oil on canvas 1982 18 x 15.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 3,00,000 - 5,00,000
40 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 41 42 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 Bangladesh War, Somnath Hore, Wounds …
"Man's history is waiting in patience for the triumph of the insulted man," “Triumph he had, but at a terrible price. With the subcontinent at war, and the new-born land still wracked by bone-shattering poverty, the joy in Bangladesh was necessarily tempered by sorrow.” (Rabindranath Tagore)
“Lean, light of foot, bright-eyed, Somnath can be seen around the Santiniketan campus, but always in a hurry. He is always going somewhere like a man on a mission. And his work too has a missionary focus. On a summer morning the world glows with sunlight, the flowers load the trees, the breeze wafts around a heady kind of perfume but in Somnath’s vision it is the spectacle of man’s suffering that steals the show. In his paintings and sculptures, in prints and drawings it is invariably the same. This has been so since a long time. Since he saw the disastrous Bengal famine more than forty years ago; and behind it the panorama of rural poverty when still a youth. He goes over and over this obsessively. In everything he sees he reads its gesture of tragedy. “ (The Vision of Somnath Hore, K.G.Subramanyan, April 1986)
“A new awareness was created in me. In 1969–71 society was in a state of upheaval and chaos. A section of the youth was restless; there was panic and terror amongst the common people. Wounds is what I saw everywhere around me. A scarred tree, a road gouged by a truck tyre, a man knifed for no visible or rational reason. A new concept was born. The subject was eliminated, only wounds remained.” (Tate Modern , Somnath Hore Exhibition)
At play in Hore's ‘Wounds’ is a new abstract visual language used to register trauma, but one that is open to multiple interpretations and meanings. (Indian Art and the Bangladesh War, Devika Singh)
The making of white on white prints involved producing gashed and blistered surfaces on clay or wax plates and making their moulds in cement which became the matrices for the prints. The medium and process point towards a common ground between print-making and sculpture. He initially worked on clay but his later prints were using wax plates which he found more suitable. And it by tearing, folding and joining similar wax plates his first sculptures were made. (R. Siva Kumar)
43 8. SOMNATH HORE (1921 - 2006)
Bangladesh war - A body agonized / Wounds
Unsigned Bronze 1972 6 x 13 x 2.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 15,00,000 - 20,00,000
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Mumbai
LOT DESCRIPTION The title "Bangladesh War - a body agonized" provided by the artist's family
44 - PRINSEPS - Autumn Auction Catalogue - 2017 45 9. HARI AMBADAS GADE (1917 - 2001)
UDEPORE
Signed bottom right Oil on canvas 1957 29.5 x 40 in.
ESTIMATE INR 20,00,000 - 25,00,000
PROVENANCE Dhoomimal Gallery Private Collection
46 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 47 10. SANKHO CHOUDHURI (1916 - 2006)
Untitled
Unsigned Wood Circa 1950 37 x 12 x 8 in.
ESTIMATE INR 5,00,000 - 8,00,000
PROVENANCE Masterpieces and Museum Quality Series - Lot 54 Osians Oct 2004 Delhi Art Gallery Private Collection
LOT DESCRIPTION As per the artists' family, two of these wood assemblages are known to have been made. This is one of them.
48 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 49 11. A.P. SANTHANARAJ (1932 - 2009)
Untitled (Lady with deer)
Signed bottom right Acrylic on canvas 2006 39.5 x 59.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 5,00,000 - 8,00,000
50 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 51 12. FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924 - 2002)
Untitled (Mutation)
Signed top left Oil on board 1968 48 x 36 in.
ESTIMATE INR 1,00,00,000 - 1,20,00,000
PROVENANCE Saffronart February 2016 Lot 48
EXHIBITED Picasso Souza group show Vadehra Art Gallery, 2011 - 2012
52 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 53 13. FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924 - 2002)
Untitled (Head)
Signed top left Acrylic on mount board 1988 28.5 x 18 in.
ESTIMATE INR 20,00,000 - 25,00,000
PROVENANCE Saffronart June 2016 Lot 60
54 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 55 14. FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924 - 2002)
Untitled (Nude - After Henri Matisse)
Signed top left Oil on canvas 1986 51.5 x 43.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 60,00,000 - 80,00,000
PUBLISHED City of Women, Vinod Bhardwaj & Brij Sharma
56 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 57 58 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 59 15. SYED HAIDER RAZA (1922 - 2016)
Abstract (Metamorphosis)
Signed bottom right Oil on canvas 1982 12 x 30 in.
ESTIMATE INR 35,00,000 - 40,00,000
PROVENANCE Vadehra Art Gallery Private Collection, Delhi
LOT DESCRIPTION Provenance certificate from Vadehra Art Gallery
60 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 61 16. SYED HAIDER RAZA (1922 - 2016)
Night
Signed bottom right Acrylic on tin 1972 25 x 19 in.
ESTIMATE INR 35,00,000 - 40,00,000
PROVENANCE Lot 23, Dec 2014 Christies, Mumbai
PUBLISHED Raza, March 2006 Exhibition Catalogue (pg 37)
62 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 63 17. RAJENDRA DHAWAN (b. 1936)
Untitled (Abstract)
Signed bottom right Oil on canvas 1971 19.5 x 25 in.
ESTIMATE INR 2,00,000 - 3,00,000
LOT DESCRIPTION Executed in Paris
64 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 65 18. VIVAN SUNDARAM (b. 1943)
Untitled
Signed top right Watercolor on paper 1989 17.5 x 17.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 2,00,000 - 3,00,000
PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist Private Collection, Mumbai
66 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 67 NATIONAL ART TREASURE - NON EXPORTABLE
19. SAILOZ MUKHERJEE (1906 - 1960)
Untitled (Portrait)
Oil on Canvas CIrca 1950 14 x 20 in.
ESTIMATE INR 5,00,000 - 8,00,000
EXHIBITED Revisiting Sailoz Mookherjea Dhoomimal Art Gallery, 2017
68 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 69 20. JEHANGIR SABAVALA (1922 - 2011)
Treescape - Mahabaleshwar
Signed bottom left Oil on board 1960 21.5 x 29.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 80,00,000 - 1,20,00,000
PROVENANCE Saffronart February 2015 Lot 34
LOT DESCRIPTION Painted in Mahabaleshwar with its typical trees, bend by the monsoon blow of wind and rain. On a holiday from the house where we were staying. Bought by the editor of "Current" and then sold to a Calcutta Gentleman Shirin J Sabavala 13 February 2015
70 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 71 21. PAKHAL TIRUMAL REDDY (1915 - 1996)
The union
Signed bottom right Oil on canvas 1968 32.5 x 27.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 5,00,000 - 8,00,000
PROVENANCE Delhi Art Gallery Private Collection
72 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 73 22. LINGACHARY MUNUSWAMY (b. 1927)
Untitled (Abstract)
Signed bottom right Watercolor on paper 1961 24.5 x 29.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 5,00,000 - 8,00,000
PROVENANCE Delhi Art Gallery Private Collection
EXHIBITED Regional Modernity, The Madras Art Movement 1960s - 1980s, NGMA Bangalore
74 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 75 23. GHULAM RASOOL SANTOSH (1929 - 1997)
Untitled
Unsigned Oil on canvas Circa 1960 41.5 x 51.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 10,00,000 - 15,00,000
PROVENANCE Acquired from the Artists' family Private Collection Delhi
LOT DESCRIPTION The work is described by the artists' family as being from his 'Calligraphic Period' (1963 - 1964)
76 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 77 NATIONAL ART TREASURE - NON EXPORTABLE
24. RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861 - 1941)
Poem
Unsigned Ink on paper
ESTIMATE INR 3,00,000 - 5,00,000
PROVENANCE Estate of Rathindranath Tagore - Mira Chatterjee
LOT DESCRIPTION Translation from Bengali: Evening time Song Chants Recitation Arup Ratan (Formless Jewel) Nitipath (Moral teachings)
78 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 79 NATIONAL ART TREASURE - NON EXPORTABLE
25. RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861 - 1941)
Letter Introducing Abanindranath Tagore
Unsigned Ink on paper
ESTIMATE INR 1,00,000 - 2,00,000
PROVENANCE Estate of Rathindranath Tagore - Mira Chatterjee
LOT DESCRIPTION To whom my wishes of well-being forever lie, Aban, the bearer of this letter is quite an accomplished artist. Surely, you have seen the painting he made of me. Also the one of Einstein. He is much desirous to make your acquaintance.
Tuesday, Rabi Uncle.
80 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 81 26. MANJIT BAWA (1941 - 2008)
Untitled (Bull)
Signed bottom left Dry pastels on paper 1991 22.5 x 35 in.
ESTIMATE INR 15,00,000 - 25,00,000
PUBLISHED A Lagecy Of Art, Dhoomimal Gallery (pg 150)
82 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 83 27. MANJIT BAWA (1941 - 2008)
Untitled (Abstract)
Signed bottom right Oil on canvas 1977 35.5 x 53 in.
ESTIMATE INR 25,00,000 - 35,00,000
LOT DESCRIPTION An early experiment with forms. Compare to serigraphs made during the same year.
84 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 85 28. MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN (1915 - 2011)
Untitled (Kashmiri girl)
Signed top right Oil on canvas 1955 27 x 15 in.
ESTIMATE INR 45,00,000 - 65,00,000
PROVENANCE Sotheby's March 2015 Lot No. 1354
86 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018
29. MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN (1915 - 2011)
Untitled (Woman and bull rider)
Unsigned Oil on canvas 1970 36 x 43 in.
ESTIMATE INR 45,00,000 - 65,00,000
PROVENANCE Pundoles August 2014 Lot 89
88 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 89 30. MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN (1915 - 2011)
Untitled (Horses)
Signed bottom right Marker pen on acrylic sheet Circa 1990 20.5 x 17.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 15,00,000 - 20,00,000
PROVENANCE Vadehra Art Gallery Private Collection
LOT DESCRIPTION Provenance certificate from Vadehra Art Gallery
90 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 91 31. KRISHEN KHANNA (b. 1925)
Untitled
Signed verso Oil on canvas 1996 43.5 x 18 in.
ESTIMATE INR 30,00,000 - 40,00,000
92 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 93 94 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 95 32. ANJOLIE ELA MENON (b. 1940)
Untitled
Signed bottom right Oil on canvas 1980 35.5 x 47.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 35,00,000 - 45,00,000
PROVENANCE Pundoles November 2016 Lot 61
96 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 97 33. SANJAY BHATTACHARYA (b. 1958)
Untitled
Signed bottom left Oil on canvas 2017 40 x 60 in.
ESTIMATE INR 6,00,000 - 9,00,000
98 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 99 34. HIMMAT SHAH (b. 1933)
Untitled (Head)
Bronze 2013 16.5 x 5.5 x 7.5 in.
ESTIMATE INR 8,00,000 - 12,00,000
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Delhi
LOT DESCRIPTION Created in a camp in Bodh Gaya in 2013. From an edition of six.
100 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 101 35. DHRUVA MISTRY (b. 1957)
Reclining nude
Signed bottom right Stainless steel 2006 15.75 x 31.5 x 14 in.
ESTIMATE INR 7,00,000 - 9,00,000
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Mumbai
102 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 103 36. BAIJU PARTHAN (b. 1956)
Untitled
Signed bottom right Lightbox 2004 23 x 23 in.
ESTIMATE INR 5,00,000 - 7,00,000
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Mumbai
104 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 105 37. PARESH MAITY (b. 1965)
Lovers
Signed bottom left Mixed media on canvas 1998 60 x 60 in.
ESTIMATE INR 10,00,000 - 15,00,000
PROVENANCE Private Collection, Delhi
EXHIBITED Commonwealth institute, London
106 - PRINSEPS - Spring Auction Catalogue - 2018 107 ONLINE BIDDING
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