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Ghulam Rasool Santosh was a pioneer of neo-Tantric art. Works such as the present lot "... were neither totally abstract nor non-representational. They were imbued with specific symbolic connotations and fused with the mysterious juxtaposition of celestial geometric forms, and complex mystical colours inspired by a personal symbolic vision." (Pran Nath Mago, Contemporary Art in India: A Perspective, New Delhi: National Book Trust India,... Ghulam Rasool Santosh was a pioneer of neo-Tantric art. Works such as the present lot "... were neither totally abstract nor non-representational. They were imbued with specific symbolic connotations and fused with the mysterious juxtaposition of celestial geometric forms, and complex mystical colours inspired by a personal symbolic vision." (Pran Nath Mago, Contemporary Art in India: A Perspective, New Delhi: National Book Trust India, 2001, pp. 94, 95) The ambiguous fi guration is created through geometric shapes and a precise symmetry which is complemented by a bright, glowing colour palette.

In an essay titled "A Post-Independence Initiative in Art," fellow artist Nilima Sheikh writes of G R Santosh's work, "The interlock of the contour in traditional Indian figuration with the Cubist design that had emerged at Baroda found its corollary in contemporary exotica - the cultic celebration of the contour via the abstractions of votive imagery and colour field dynamics." (Gulam Mohammed Sheikh ed., Contemporary Art in Baroda, New Delhi: Tulika, 1997, p. 80)

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