Prodosh Das Gupta
(1912 - 1991)
Untitled (Suryamukhi)
Prodosh Dasgupta was trained in sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts and LCC Central School, London, and the Ecole de Grand Chaumier, Paris, after completing his initial studies in sculpture at the Government School of Art and Craft, Chennai, and the Lucknow School of Arts and Crafts. He returned to India in 1940, and went on to serve as Curator of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi from 1957 to 1970. He believed that abstraction...
Prodosh Dasgupta was trained in sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts and LCC Central School, London, and the Ecole de Grand Chaumier, Paris, after completing his initial studies in sculpture at the Government School of Art and Craft, Chennai, and the Lucknow School of Arts and Crafts. He returned to India in 1940, and went on to serve as Curator of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi from 1957 to 1970. He believed that abstraction needed an image, and "related the form of his sculpture, however simplified or tending towards near-abstraction to the expression of his emotional feelings and vision of the objective world." (Pran Nath Mago, Contemporary Art in India: A Perspective, New Delhi: National Book Trust India, 2001, p. 91) The present lot, titled Suryamukhi, was part of an exhibition of at the Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi in 2012. "All Prodosh's works consist of curved concavities, often translated from the human metaphor which seals itself with soft-textured rust. Each work is an open, upright invitation of almost identical conical or ovoid or boxed like sections, tilting this way and that along the routes of passage of thought." (Uma Nair, "Prodosh Das Gupta - Poetry in Metal," The Times of India Blog, 29 March 2012, online) Das Gupta's work gives a nod to Western sculptors such as Henry Moore while also evoking Indian references to spirituality and the cosmos.
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EVENING SALE | NEW DELHI, LIVE
8 SEPTEMBER 2016
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Rs 25,00,000 - 35,00,000
$37,880 - 53,035
ARTWORK DETAILS
Prodosh Das Gupta
Untitled (Suryamukhi)
Inscribed and dated '5/5 / P Das Gupta / 1978' (on the reverse on the base)
1978
Bronze
Height: 19 in (45.5 cm) Width: 28 in (71 cm) Depth: 36.75 in (93.5 cm)
Fifth from a limited edition of five
PROVENANCE: Acquired from the artist's family Private Collection, Kolkata Private Collection, New Delhi
EXHIBITED:Exhibition of Sculptures by Shri Prodosh Das Gupta , New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 15 March - 7 April 2012; Kolkata: Victoria Memorial Hall, 25 July - 12 August 2012; Chennai: Lalit Kala Akademi, 25 September - 5 October 2012 (another from the edition)3 Masters , New Delhi: Akar Prakar Art Advisory, 19 January - 28 February 2015 (another from the edition) PUBLISHED: Kishore Singh ed., The Naked and the Nude: The Body in Indian Modern Art; Edition Two , New Delhi: Delhi Art Gallery, 2013, p. 147 (illustrated)
Category: Sculpture
Style: Figurative