Satish Gujral
(1925 - 2020)
Untitled
During his time in Mexico on a scholarship, Satish Gujral came to a new understanding of medium while assisting Diego Rivera on his mural at Teatro de los Insurgentes, which Rivera made with the then new medium of acrylic and glass mosaic. The artist has said, “This experience influenced my later searches for material other than paint.” (Gayatri Sinha, “Satish Gujral: A Singular Journey”, Dipa Chaudhuri ed., Satish Gujral: An Artography, ...
During his time in Mexico on a scholarship, Satish Gujral came to a new understanding of medium while assisting Diego Rivera on his mural at Teatro de los Insurgentes, which Rivera made with the then new medium of acrylic and glass mosaic. The artist has said, “This experience influenced my later searches for material other than paint.” (Gayatri Sinha, “Satish Gujral: A Singular Journey”, Dipa Chaudhuri ed., Satish Gujral: An Artography, 2006, p. 14) The present lot, a textured mixed media work where deep shades of blue and purple dominate the canvas, was made after Gujral’s return from Mexico and is an example of his unflagging experimental nature. “Perhaps the guiding principle of Gujral’s life’s work, that now stretches over five decades, is a marked adisciplinarity. In his autobiography A Brush with Life, he writes lucidly about the difficulty of reception that every change of material and form evoked, from painting to murals to sculpture to paper collages to architecture… He speaks of ‘the recurrence of those phases of depression’ that preceded each change of medium. If Gujral remained undaunted it was because of his eclectic training at the Mayo School and in Mexico, as well as his own conviction in his potential.” (Sinha, p. 14)
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SPRING ONLINE AUCTION
13-14 MARCH 2024
Estimate
Rs 28,00,000 - 32,00,000
$34,150 - 39,025
Winning Bid
Rs 48,00,000
$58,537
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ARTWORK DETAILS
Satish Gujral
Untitled
Signed in Devnagari and dated '77' (faintly visible, centre right and lower left); bearing Dhoomimal Gallery label (on the stretcher bar on the reverse)
1977
Mixed media on canvas
48 x 48 in (122 x 122 cm)
PROVENANCE Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
EXHIBITEDOutliers, Rebels, Disruptors: Delhi Silpi Chakra, 70 Years On , New Delhi: Dhoomimal Gallery, 10 April - 31 July 202188 Years - 88 Masterpieces , New Delhi: Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi in association with Dhoomimal Gallery, 25 January - 2 February 2024 PUBLISHEDConfluence: Eighty Years of Artists and Their Art , New Delhi: Dhoomimal Gallery (illustrated)88 Years - 88 Masterpieces: Master’s Artworks , New Delhi: Dhoomimal Gallery, 2024, p. 36 (illustrated)
Category: Painting
Style: Figurative
ARTWORK SIZE:
Height of Figure: 6'