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A consummate draughtsman, painter, sculptor, architect and writer, Satish Gujral's artistic career has spanned more than six decades and several media and genres. In the present lot, a richly textured canvas characteristic of his oeuvre, the artist explores the relationship between freedom and captivity, man and animal, using motifs that have become familiar in his work - the rider, the leather horse's harness and the flock of doves.

... A consummate draughtsman, painter, sculptor, architect and writer, Satish Gujral's artistic career has spanned more than six decades and several media and genres. In the present lot, a richly textured canvas characteristic of his oeuvre, the artist explores the relationship between freedom and captivity, man and animal, using motifs that have become familiar in his work - the rider, the leather horse's harness and the flock of doves.

"The taming of the animate by the inanimate is a conundrum that is very well expressed in these works. An entire gamut of relationships between the natural and the artful are played out on canvas...The interplay ranges from a forceful reigning in of furious power to a balance of the elements to a harmonious and complementary fusion of the two with a fluid flow of energy from one to the other" (Seema Bawa, "Harnessing the Mystical Moment", Metamorphosis: Canvas & Bronze, Lalit Kala Akademi exhibition catalogue, 2008, not paginated).

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