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MANJIT BAWA
(1941 ‒ 2008)
Untitled
Signed and dated ‘Manjit Bawa 2000’ (lower right)
2000
Charcoal on paper
59 x 34.25 in (150.1 x 86.7 cm)
Rs 35,00,000 ‒ 45,00,000
$ 52,240 ‒ 67,165
PROVENANCE:
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Collection of Bhavna and Ravi Bawa, New Delhi
Private Collection, Mumbai
Private Collection, Delhi
EXHIBITED:
Manjit Bawa: Recent Drawings ‒ 2001
, New Delhi: ITC Maurya
Sheraton, 4‒7 January 2001; Kolkata: Taj Bengal, 9‒11 March
2001; Mumbai: Sakshi Gallery, 7 April ‒ 8 May 2001
Let’s Paint the Sky Red: Manjit Bawa ‒ 2011
, New Delhi: Visual
Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, 20‒27 August 2011; New
Dellhi: Vadehra Art Gallery, 1‒30 September 2011
PUBLISHED:
Ina Puri and Prabhakar Kolte,
Manjit Bawa: Recent Drawings ‒
2001
, Mumbai: Sakshi Gallery, 2001 (illustrated, unpaginated)
Arun Vadehra, S Kalidas et. al,
Let’s Paint The Sky Red: Manjit
Bawa
, New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery, 2011, p. 56 (illustrated)
Present lot published in Ina Puri and Prabhakar Kolte,
Manjit Bawa: Recent Drawings ‒ 2001
, Mumbai: Sakshi Gallery, 2001
The present lot is part of a series of drawings by Manjit
Bawa that were exhibited in 2001. Bawa, is well known for
his sensitive and striking paintings of mythological heroes,
saints, acrobats, birds and animals, taking liquid forms on
monochromatic backgrounds. Retaining the fluidity of his
paintings, his precise, large scale drawings demonstrate
Bawa’s skilled draughtsmanship. In his own words: “To an
artist, drawing is a more effective medium, capturing easily
the movement and expression of the subject but in my
drawing I freeze the subject in space and time. While the
rough sketches, often just strong lines in charcoal, have a
flow about them, the finished work, despite its flowing
movements become formalised and expressive of my own
style, of what has become synonymous with my art.” (Artist
quoted in Ina Puri and Prabhakar Kolte,
Manjit Bawa: Recent
Drawings ‒ 2001
, Mumbai: Sakshi Gallery, 2001)