25Th Anniversary Sale | Live -Apr-2, 2025 -Lot 31 -G R Santosh

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G R Santosh
(1929 - 1997)

Untitled

“My canvas represents a projection of shunya, the Void, which is incalculable in time and dimension, Anadi and Ananta [without beginning or end]. The surrounding dark oceans in terms of which you describe the borders of my canvas are the ever-unfathomable, unreachable of the fundamental unfathomable, infinite aspects of the fundamental Creative Force which lies beyond the pale of Wisdom, Thought, and Imagination. The canvas itself, therefore,...

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Lot 31 of 75

25TH ANNIVERSARY SALE | LIVE
2 APRIL 2025
Estimate
Rs 38,00,000 - 42,00,000
$44,710 - 49,415

Winning Bid
Rs 78,00,000
$91,765
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

ARTWORK DETAILS

G R Santosh
Untitled

Signed in Devnagari and signed and dated '90/ "SANTOSH"' (on the reverse)
1990
Oil on canvas
52.25 x 38.5 in (133 x 98 cm)

PROVENANCE
Acquired from DAG, New Delhi
Private Collection, New Delhi

EXHIBITED
G. R. Santosh: Awakening - A Retrospective, New Delhi: DAG, 5 - 21 January 2012; Mumbai: DAG, 21 August – 30 September 2014

PUBLISHED
Kishore Singh ed., Awakening: A Retrospective of G. R. Santosh, New Delhi: DAG, 2011, p. 25 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract

ARTWORK SIZE:
Height of Figure: 6'

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