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V S GAITONDE
(1924 ‒ 2001)
Untitled
Signed and dated in Devnagari, signed and
dated again ‘Gaitonde ‘72’ and inscribed indistinctly (on the reverse)
1972
Oil on canvas
54.25 x 39.5 in (138 x 100.5 cm)
Rs 7,00,00,000 ‒ 9,00,00,000
$ 1,000,000 ‒ 1,285,715
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Mumbai
Osian’s, Mumbai, 30 June 2009, lot 20
“I was constantly looking at Zen, the canvas, the colour, the idea. You
go on working on the idea, the idea coming into being. And you start
painting. That is the central point of my activity… even now.”
V S GAITONDE
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