Anju Dodiya
(1964)
Mourner in Rose Print
The self is at the center of Anju Dodiya's works. Though not solipsistic, the
majority of her works give the viewer access to private moments, lifted from
"the private discourse that goes on within oneself when one is alone". Dodiya
initially resisted the lure of self-portraiture: Her early works were extremely
abstract, and following her first show ("a fictional autobiography"), she tried
to refocus her gaze on railway...
The self is at the center of Anju Dodiya's works. Though not solipsistic, the
majority of her works give the viewer access to private moments, lifted from
"the private discourse that goes on within oneself when one is alone". Dodiya
initially resisted the lure of self-portraiture: Her early works were extremely
abstract, and following her first show ("a fictional autobiography"), she tried
to refocus her gaze on railway stations, roadside scenes, and so forth. Yet
ultimately she found her original impulse of a painterly introspection was the
strongest, and rechanneled her vision into describing situations from her life.
Dodiya describes her relationship with contemporary Western art as ambivalent.
Her own art remains rooted in the figurative, and her debts to the West are mostly
to Giotto, Massacio, and other painters of the Italian Renaissance. As with those
painters, all elements within her paintings are charged with an emotional value.
"Often," she says, "I use furniture or, say, a curtain or a door to speak".
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WINTER ONLINE AUCTION: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN ART AND COLLECTIBLES
9-10 DECEMBER 2020
Estimate
Rs 8,00,000 - 10,00,000
$10,960 - 13,700
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Rs 7,44,600
$10,200
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ARTWORK DETAILS
Anju Dodiya
Mourner in Rose Print
Signed, inscribed and dated 'Anju/ ANJU DODIYA/ 2004/ MOURNER IN ROSE PRINT' (on the reverse)
2004
Watercolour on paper
44.25 x 44 in (112.3 x 111.6 cm)
PROVENANCE Acquired from Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi Property of a Lady, Mumbai
EXHIBITEDAnju Dodiya: The Cloud Hunt , New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery, 16 February - 15 March 2005 PUBLISHED Nancy Adajania, Anju Dodiya: The Cloud Hunt , New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery, 2005, p. 42 (illustrated)
Category: Painting
Style: Figurative
ARTWORK SIZE:
Height of Figure: 6'