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G R Santosh
(1929 - 1997)

Untitled



"Painting to me is like poetry - timeless and universal."

Poet-painter Gulam Rasool Santosh, who comes from the beautiful Kashmir valley, was born in 1929, in a middle class family. He once said in an interview, "In Kashmir, art was taught in school after class V. But I remember drawing in class II, starting, at the onset, on a landscape which I liked so much that I concentrated on landscapes, doing several of these before I changed...



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  Lot 32 of 130  

SUMMER ONLINE AUCTION
26-27 JUNE 2024

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Winning Bid
Rs 24,00,000
$28,916

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ARTWORK DETAILS

G R Santosh
Untitled

Signed in Devnagari and dated '64' (lower right)
1964
Oil and encaustic on canvas
32 x 32 in (81.5 x 81.5 cm)

PROVENANCE
Acquired from the artist's family

EXHIBITED
Awakening: A Retrospective of G. R. Santosh, New Delhi: DAG, 5 - 21 January 2012
Indian Abstracts: An Absence of Form, New Delhi: DAG, 11 August – 30 September 2014
A Visual History of Indian Modern Art, Volume VII: Alternate Sensibilities, New Delhi: DAG, January - February 2015

PUBLISHED
Awakening: A Retrospective of G. R. Santosh, New Delhi: DAG, 2011, p. 102 (illustrated)
Kishore Singh ed., Indian Abstracts: An Absence of Form, New Delhi: DAG, 2014, p. 358 (illustrated)
A Visual History of Indian Modern Art, Volume VII: Alternate Sensibilities, New Delhi: DAG, 2015, p. 1314 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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