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Ram Kumar's abstract landscapes capture the essence of place without the use of identifiable built structures. Writing of the complex quality of Kumar's work, critic Richard Bartholomew says, "When I see a Ram Kumar painting... I get the feeling that I've been there before... The very forms of the composition suggest that. The hard and the soft, the tangible and the elusive, the structure and the sensation... Ram's work draws us into its field... Ram Kumar's abstract landscapes capture the essence of place without the use of identifiable built structures. Writing of the complex quality of Kumar's work, critic Richard Bartholomew says, "When I see a Ram Kumar painting... I get the feeling that I've been there before... The very forms of the composition suggest that. The hard and the soft, the tangible and the elusive, the structure and the sensation... Ram's work draws us into its field of vision, involving us visually, stimulating us to see this detail or that... There is great depth, in perspective and feeling. The experience encountered is extremely refined. A reductive principle in composition and an immaculate technique determine the scale." (Rati Bartholomew, Pablo Bartholomew, Carmen Kagal and Rosalyn D'Mello eds., Richard Bartholomew: The Art Critic, Noida: BART, 2012, p. 536) The present lot has the power to evoke this sense of place without specifying what that place might be.

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