136-137 / 168
136
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GULAM MOHAMMED SHEIKH
(b. 1937)
A City is Known by its Statues
Inscribed ‘A CITY IS KNOWN BY ITS STATUES’ (lower centre);
signed and dated in Gujarati (lower right)
2014
Watercolour on paper
23.5 x 35.75 in (59.5 x 91 cm)
Rs 10,00,000 ‒ 15,00,000
$ 14,930 ‒ 22,390
“It’s not that you don’t refer to things . . . The process is neither totally conscious
nor totally subconscious. There are phases in which you work—a painting is
not done in a single moment. It is done over a period of time; and in that, it’s
not one kind of painting that you do, because times change, you change, the
world changes, and then you decide... The mundane world of autobiography
turns into a larger biography that is available to others.”
G M SHEIKH
EXHIBITED:
Masterpieces 2016
, Mumbai: Taj Art Gallery presented by Aakriti
Art Gallery, 11‒13 November 2016
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SOMNATH HORE
(1921 ‒ 2006)
a) Untitled
Initialled and dated ‘S 30 1 82’ (upper right)
1982
Watercolour and dry pastel on paper
10 x 14.2 in (25.4 x 36 cm)
b) Untitled
Initialled and dated ‘S 15 1 83’ (lower right)
1983
Watercolour and dry pastel on paper
10.2 x 14.4 in (25.9 x 36.6 cm)
c) Untitled
Initialled and dated ‘S 5 1 83’ (lower right)
1983
Watercolour and dry pastel on paper
10 x 14.2 in (25.4 x 36 cm)
d) Untitled
Initialled and dated ‘S 28 1 82’ (lower right)
1982
Watercolour and dry pastel on paper
10 x 14.2 in (25.4 x 36 cm)
e) Untitled
Initialled and dated ‘S 12 1 82’ (lower right)
1982
Watercolour and dry pastel on paper
10.2 x 14.4 in (25.9 x 36.6 cm)
Rs 8,00,000 ‒ 12,00,000
$ 11,945 ‒ 17,915
(Set of five)
PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, Shantiniketan
Private Collection, New Delhi
Somnath Hore came to recognition on the Indian art scene for
his hard‒hitting documentation of the Bengal Famine of 1943
and the Tebhaga peasant movement of 1946. These events,
and the political climate of Bengal, were strongly tied into his
work throughout his career. His portraits of peasants, workers
and animals reflect their acute anguish and suffering. And yet
within the depictions of destitution are “suppressed men and
women tentatively but surely asserting their humanity with
quiet heroism.” (R Siva Kumar,
Somnath Hore
, Kolkata: The
Seagull Foundation for the Arts, 2011, p. 55)
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