Modern to Contemporary

Badri Narayan

Cat

Wood Cut on Paper
9 x 6 inches
23 x 15 cm
Signed

INR 65,000/-

The work comes from the estate of the artist and is published in the book
"Badri Narayan, Portrait of the Artist as Storyteller" written by Ms. Prema
Viswanathan & published Jointly by Marg & Pundole. A copy of the book
would accompany this work.

Badri Narayan

The Sleeping Monk & Woman

Watercolour on Paper
8x8 inches | 23 x 15 cm | 2007
Signed B/R

INR 175000/-

The work comes from the estate of the artist and is published in the book
"Badri Narayan, Portrait of the Artist as Storyteller" written by Ms. Prema
Viswanathan & published Jointly by Marg & Pundole. A copy of the book
would accompany this work.

Badri Narayan

Untitled

8x8 inches
22.86 x 15.24 cm
Signed Bottom Right

INR 175000/-

The work comes from the estate of the artist and is published in the book
"Badri Narayan, Portrait of the Artist as Storyteller" written by Ms. Prema
Viswanathan & published Jointly by Marg & Pundole. A copy of the book
would accompany this work.

K. G. SUBRAMANYAN

1924 - 2016

Subramanyan’s career began in earnest in the 1950s, and his early training
in Santiniketan was evident. “[His early works] trace his transition from an
impressionable student, influenced by two dissimilar mentors - Ramkinkar
[Baij] and Benode Behari [Mukherjee] - to a young artist putting together
the rudimentary framework of a visual language and vision of his own.” (R
Siva Kumar, Self Portraits and Other Early Drawings, Kolkata: Seagull
Foundation for the Arts, 2020)
In 1966, Subramanyan was awarded a J D Rockefeller III Fund Fellowship,
which entailed a year-long stay in New York. It was during this period that
his ongoing interest in semi-abstraction further evolved, reviving traditional
techniques by infusing them with a unique plasticity that contemporised
them and increased their reach.

K. G. Subramanyan

Untitled

Brush on Paper
17 x 15 inches
43 x 38 cm | 2006
Signed

INR 2,90,000/-

The work was procured through an exhibition held in Shantineketan

K. G. Subramanyan

Untitled

Brush on Paper
17 x 15 inches
43 x 38 cm | 2006
Signed
INR 2,90,000/-

The work was procured through an exhibition held in Shantineketan

(a) (b)
(c) (d)

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K. G. Subramanyan

Untitled

(a) Watercolour on Paper

10 x 6.5 inches
24 x 17 cm
Signed

(b) Watercolour on Paper

7 x 7.6 inches
18 x 19 cm
2003
Signed Bottom Left

(c) Watercolour on Paper
& 7 x 9 inches
(d) 18 x 21 cm

Signed Bottom

INR 210000/-

PARTHA PRATIM DEB

B 1943

He expresses his art through many different medium including
small abstract vignettes scratched out postcards, large bas-relief
assemblages on board, oil on canvas paintings as well as delicate
yet powerful ink on paper works.For example a single line, straight
and horizontal, can become the horizon, the hull of a boat, the
division of two dimensional space or a roof top. Similarly twenty or

more, streaming in parallel across a page, can create a flag,
shimmering water or a rolling hill. These elements make his work

instantly recognizable and extremely engaging.

Partha Pratim Deb

Untitled

Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 20 inches
76 x 51 cm
2014

INR 75,000/- each

SUHAS ROY

1936 - 2016

His preoccupation is primarily with the female face and form, and his
subjects are romanticised, inhabiting the dreamlike world between

sensuality and innocence. His work is usually inspired by life around him,
but his themes are as much influenced by the everyday world as they are

rooted in fantasy. This graceful portrayal of his subjects has much to do
with his choice of materials - his crayons, charcoal and brush have
sensitivity and refinement.

Suhas Roy

Radha
Dry Soft Pastel on
Imported Paper
20 x 16 inches
51 x 41 cm

INR 1,40,000/-

Suhas Roy

Christ

Pastel on Paper
12 x 15 inches
30 x 38 cm
2014
INR 95000/-

Suhas Roy

Radha

Mixed Media on Board
10 x 8 inches
25 x 20cm

INR 95000/-

Suhas Roy

Radha

Mixed Media on Board
10 x 8 inches
25 x 20cm

INR 95000/-

KARTICK CH. PYNE

1931 - 2017

Pyne was an artist much ahead of his times. Whilst his contemporaries were
still experimenting with impressionistic and post impressionistic styles and
techniques on their canvases and painted under the influence of Gauguin and
Cezanne`s works, Kartick Pyne was taken up by the aesthetics of the post
cubistic European idiom. Artists like Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp and
Joan Miro inspired him, and he was one of the few Indian painters who in
breaking away from tradition, demonstrated that the Indian art scene at that
time was stagnating and its products redundant. At the time Pyne began to
paint professionally, the common stress was on realism. Everyone was
painting the rational and the beautiful. He tried to paint according to what
was expected of an artist then for some time, but the pioneer in him made
Pyne begin to introduce irrational elements in his work and start to express his
feelings on canvas without any inhibitions.

(a)

(b) (b) Untitled

Kartick Ch. Pyne Watercolour on Paper
30 x 20 inches
(a) Untitled 76 x 50 cm
Signed
Watercolour on Paper
30 x 22.5 inches
76 x 57 cm
Signed

INR 120000/- (Set of 2)

Kartick Ch. Pyne

Untitled

Watercolour on Thick Paper
18 x 24 inches
45 x 61 cm | 2003
Signed Bottom Right

INR 95000/-

Kartick Ch. Pyne

Untitled

Watercolour on Thick
Imported Paper
30 x 22.5 inches
76 x 57 cm | 2003

INR 95000/-

GANESH HALOI

1936

Born on the banks of the Brahmaputra in Jamalpur, Mymensingh, now in
Bangladesh in 1936, Ganesh Haloi moved to Kolkata in 1950 following the

partition of India. The trauma of the uprooting left its mark on his work
as it did on some other painters of his generation. Haloi has a very strong

sense of oneness with nature, especially landscape, one of his deepest
source of inspiration. He merge with the landscape that he loses his own
identity; there is no sense of alienation for him. “My feelings and affection
are here. The mountains, the people playing folk songs on the banks, I do

not think it is something separate from me. I am not apart from the
landscape", he says.

Ganesh Haloi

Untitled

Ink & Brush on Nepali Paper
9 x 13 inches | 22.86 x 33.02 cm (each)
Signed Bottom Right

INR 150,000/- (each)

Ganesh Haloi

Untitled

12 x 16 inches
30.48 x 40.64 cm
Signed Bottom Right

INR 2,25,000/-

Art is not what you
see, but what you
make others see.

Edgar Degas

HAKU SHAH

B 1936

Haku Shah is a well-known figurative painter of the Baroda School and
an authority on folk and tribal art. Cultural roots of the family and the
prevailing social, spiritual environment around were sources of major
influences on Shah's life and art. Since his early childhood Shah was
interested in painting, music, poetry and drama. He made wall paintings
for mass awakening and even helped to stage an exhibition of paintings,
depicting the exploitation in the society, which toured many villages. Shah
strongly holds that art exists where life throbs and thrives. It is no
surprise, then, that the natural simplicity and spontaneity of rural life
fascinates him. While teaching at the Gandhi Ashram in Gujarat, Haku
Shah came in contact with the Rani Paraj tribe.

Haku Shah

Untitled

Oil on Canvas
24 x 24 inches
61 x 61 cm | 2005

INR 5,75,000/- INR 3,99,000/-

GOBARDHAN ASH

1907 - 1996

His verbal imagery alluded to what was real and relevant in India yet
transcended to communicate a deeper, universal message about the human
spirit. Disillusioned with the limits and constraints he faced, Ash withdrew
into his private introspective world to explore his own mode of artistic
expression. And although it was the convention then to paint divinities or
exotic female figures on their way to the temple, Ash embarked on a new
approach altogether to paint farmers toiling in the fields, workers engaged in
intense labor to earn their hiving, thereby setting a new trend of socio-
realistic art in India.
Ash never subscribed to a stringent artistic form or technique. Rather, his
works from the 80s display yet another intriguing and jarringly different
style in his treatment of portraiture. His colors, with the exception of the
apparent outlines, are reduced to smudges and smears so that the painting
appear to originate from stained canvas. His subjects, spectral figures that
engage and draw us within their profound state of despair and helplessness.

(a) (b)

Gobardhan Ash (b) Farmer Couple

(a) In the Village Gouache on Paper
14 x 11 inches
Gouache on Paper 35.56 x 27.94 cm
10 x 15 inches Signed
25.4 x 38.1 cm INR 65000
Signed

INR 75000

PARITOSH SEN

1918 - 2008

A painter, illustrator, tutor and writer, Paritosh Sen has been a part of
the world of Indian art, for close to four decades now. Sen's more

recognizable works are his caricatures, which reflect strong underlying
socio-political shades, and his female nude drawings.

His drawings and paintings are noted for their strong lines and bold,
stylised strokes. Although colour is an important aspect of his paintings, it
is the human figure, expressing a myriad of emotions, that dominates his

art. A recurrent subject in Sen's works is his depiction of scenes from
everyday urban life. These activities are rendered from a cynical and

detached perspective, which is typically Sen's viewpoint.

Paritosh Sen

The Girl with the Stick

Mixed Media on Board
22 x 28 inches
56 x 71 cm

INR 5,50,000/-

ANJOLIE ELA MENON

B 1940

Throughout her career as a painter, Anjolie Ela Menon has regularly re-
envisioned her role as an artist. Menon's early canvases exhibited the varied
influences of van Gogh, the Expressionists, Modigliani, Amrita Sher-Gil, and
M. F. Husain. Mainly portraits, these paintings, according to the artist, “were
dominated by flat areas of thick bright colour, with sharp outlines that were
painted 'with the vigour and brashness of extreme youth'.” Menon admits
that her work has undergone tremendous changes with every phase of her
life and that as she has grown older, the narcissism of the early years has
been transformed into nostalgia for the past.

Anjolie Ela Menon

Untitled

Etching on Paper
14.77 x 13 inches | 36 x 33 cm
Limited Edition : 7/15
Signed Lower Right

INR 80,000/-

JOGEN CHOWDHURY

b 1939

He is known for his ability to successfully marry traditional imagery
with the zeitgeist of contemporary painting, in a skillful blend of an
urbane self-awareness and a highly localized Bengali influence. His
early works show an attention to figuration that carries through in his
current pieces. In an interview, Chowdhury commented that, in his
early works, "the space projected a simple iconic presence. A spatial
sequence was worked out but the space was not complex. The
background seemed to vanish." Anshuman Dasgupta describes these
works as more iconic and more dramatized; per contra, Chowdhury
describes his later works as "now more personalized and subtle".

(a) (b)

Jogen Chowdhury

(a) Untitled

Ink & Pastel on Paper
10.8 x 8.5 inches
27 x 22 cm | 2021

(b) Ink & Pastel on Paper
10.8 x 8.5 inches
27 x 22 cm| 2021

INR 2,55,000/-( set of 2 )
( all in delivered )

Jogen Chowdhury

(c) Untitled

Ink & Pastel on Paper
10.8 x 8.5 inches
27 x 22 cm | 2021
INR 1,45,000/-
( all in delivered )

(c)

(d) Ink & Pastel on Paper
7.5 x 5.5 inches
19.05 x 13.97 cm
2013
Signed
INR 80,000/- plus GST

(d)

(a) (b)
(c) (d)

RINI DHUMAL

1948 - 2021

I have been a printmaker and a painter. For some time now I have been
painting and enjoyed it immensely. In fact my printmaking background was an
added asset. Painting has been equally helpful in my new series of prints, in
encouraging a simpler approach and technique. In today's contemporary art in
India vis-a-vis painting or sculpture, prints have been looked down on as a
stepchild. Of course, a lot of effort has been made to bring prints into the
mainstream of the art world in India, but have not been successful as yet.
One has to make a conscious effort to make the public or art lovers want to
own a print, make them understand that it is as relevant and original as a
painting itself. A close relationship exists between a printmaker and his prints.
The serial nature of prints permits an artist to see and record the development
of their ideas, figurative or abstract.

Rini Dhumal

Devi

Oil on Canvas
48 x 36 inches
122 x 91 cm | 2010

INR 5,50,000/-

RABIN MONDAL

1929 - 2019

Mondal’s figuration derives from a growing abhorrence towards
mankind’s moral decay in all spheres of life. The cubo-futuristic
angularities of forms within the pictorial space arranged around them
evolved into a series of paintings depicting highly distinct human figures
that struggle to live a hero’s life in a mocking but tragic world. Mondal’s

images have a deeply felt iconic appearance.

Rabin Mondal

Migrant Workers

Oil on Board
24 x 18 inches
61 x 46 cm

INR 2,45,000/-
(All in Door Delivered)

Rabin Mondal

King

Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 36 inches
76 x 91 cm | 2015

INR 2,99,000/-

To be an artist is to
believe in life.

Henry Moore

PRABHAKAR KOLTE

B 1946

Kolte shows the strong influence of Paul Klee, the Swiss artist and teacher
whose childlike figures belie the sophistication of his richly textured

surfaces. Kolte’s abstract layering with paint echo cityscapes where the
signs and textures reveal his modernist consciousness. Bands of color

juxtaposed against each other create bold ascensions and recessions. His
early canvases are characterized by a single, dominant colour in the
background, on which lighter and more complex geometric or organic
forms are juxtaposed.

Prabhakar
Kolte

Untitled

Acrylic on Canvas
39 x 16 inches
99 x 41 cm | 2007

INR 5,50,000/-

SHUVAPRASANNA BHATTACHARYA

B 1947

Shuvaprasanna has depicted varying moods of the city and its people, its
places, and all its facets that make the city distinctive. As he states, 'There
isn’t another city like Kolkata anywhere in the world. In the heart of it, I
find innumerable themes, subjects.' He doesn't merely portray reality as
'matter of fact' and his presentation of reality often has dream-like
elements in it. In terms of technique, Shuvaprasanna boasts a precise,
finely executed style that yields an unmistakable visual intensity. He
works comfortably in an assortment of media, including oil on canvas,
charcoal, and mixed media.

Shuvaprasanna

Untitled

Pen & Ink on Paper
11 x 8 inches
28 x 2 cm
2009
INR 75,000/-

MANU PAREKH

b 1939

Vivid colours and prominent lines are an integral part of Parekh’s work
and each exudes the energy that he attempts to capture. Parekh
admits to being very strongly influenced by his surroundings. His stay
in the city of Calcutta, for instance, drew him towards Santiniketan
and the old masters of Indian art, Ram Kinkar Baij and Rabindranath
Tagore. His appreciation of their work, more at a perceptual level than
stylistic one, urged him to delve deeper into the thoughts that inform
his own ouevre.
Banaras as a city came to play an integral role in Parekh’s work after
his first visit there following his father’s death. This holy city of hope, of
faith, of tourists offered him a vast number of contradictions in one
location. Parekh also highlights his relationship with his wife Madhvi,
who is a self taught artist, and his admiration for Picasso as key
influences on his works.

Manu Parekh

Untitled

Mixed Media on Canvas
36 x 48 inches
91 x 122 cm | 2009

INR 8,50,000/-

Manu Parekh

Untitled

Mixed Media on Canvas
36 x 48 inches
91 x 122 cm | 2009

INR 8,50,000/-

CONTEMPORARY

S. HARSHAVARDHANA

b 1958

A self-taught artist, Harshavardhana’s journey towards an art career has
been rather unusual as for a long time, art had been a hobby for him. He
completed his pot graduation in Bio-Sciences from the Birla Institute of
Science and Technology, Pilani. He also secured a Diploma in Business
Management. And for many years, the artist held senior management
positions in the bio-medical industry.
This self-taught artist displays his vast creative vocabulary in his heavily
textured but plainly coloured canvases. Deeply influenced by tribal art and
symbols, Harsha Vardhana creates abstract geometrical forms; inverted
triangular structures are constructed within carefully demarcated areas of
colour, which violently cut into one another – some blend in while others
create obvious scars, bringing a distinctive character to the piece.