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G R Santosh
(1929 - 1997)

Untitled (Torso Series)



"Painting to me is like poetry - timeless and universal."

Poet-painter Gulam Rasool Santosh, who comes from the beautiful Kashmir valley, was born in 1929, in a middle class family. He once said in an interview, "In Kashmir, art was taught in school after class V. But I remember drawing in class II, starting, at the onset, on a landscape which I liked so much that I concentrated on landscapes, doing several of these before I changed...



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  Lot 74 of 107  

REDISCOVERY 2.0
29-30 JANUARY 2025

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ARTWORK DETAILS

G R Santosh
Untitled (Torso Series)

Signed in Devnagari and dated '65' (lower left)
1965
Oil and encaustic on canvas
51 x 37.25 in (129.5 x 94.5 cm)

PROVENANCE
Acquired from the artist's family, New Delhi

EXHIBITED
Awakening: A Retrospective of G. R. Santosh, New Delhi: DAG, 5 – 21 January 2012; Mumbai: DAG, 21 August – 30 September 2014
Indian Abstracts: An Absence of Form, New Delhi: DAG, 11 August – 30 September 2014; Mumbai: DAG, 7 December 2014 – 5 February 2015; New York: DAG, 13 June – 12 September 2015

PUBLISHED
Kishore Singh ed., Awakening: A Retrospective of G. R. Santosh, New Delhi: DAG, 2011, p. 98 (illustrated)
Kishore Singh ed., Indian Abstracts: An Absence of Form, New Delhi: DAG, 2014, p. 354 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract


 









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