"I think I have tried to convey how to free oneself. Using color as a force to reach towards the beauty and generosity of the material that allows you unlimited expression." - NATVAR BHAVSARrangoli and festivals, as well as his move to the US in the 1960s..."I think I have tried to convey how to free oneself. Using color as a force to reach towards the beauty and generosity of the material that allows you unlimited expression." - NATVAR BHAVSARrangoli and festivals, as well as his move to the US in the 1960s and the artistic movements that he encountered there. The New Yorkbased artist's process involves dry pigments sifted onto the canvas, and his paintings "depend on a keen ability to sustain the complex maneuvering of pure mineral pigments. Every motion of the hand and arm is carefully intuited. His attention is perpetually focused on integrating the tactile, intellectual, and spiritual attributes that hover in the mysterious zone between art and life. Here Bhavsar proceeds to construct a magisterial terrain of fervent color, thus opening a visionary pathway into a burgeoning global awareness." (Robert C Morgan, "Natvar Bhavsar's Threshold of Purity," Natvar Bhavsar: Five Decades, New York: Cara Gallery, 2015, p. 5)
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WINTER ONLINE AUCTION: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN ART AND COLLECTIBLES
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Rs 50,00,000 - 70,00,000
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Rs 48,18,000
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Natvar Bhavsar Kalpu
Signed, dated and inscribed 'NATVAR BHAVSAR/ DEC 71/ KALPU' (on the reverse)
PROVENANCE
EXHIBITEDThe Cherelle Hutchinson Collection , Richmond: Charles Nodrum Gallery, 24 July - 13 August 2014Abstraction 18: Further a-Field, 1970s , Richmond: Charles Nodrum Gallery, 20 September - 13 October 2018
Category: Painting
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