Lot 48

"Mehta accepts the necessity of art-historical cross-referencing but privileges the analytical mode of structuring references. He thus makes the sources formally coeval and the image symbolic in the universal sense of that term. Tyeb Mehta`s inscription of a figural metaphor for terror on a brilliantly painted ground reads like a death mask in the context of twentieth-century art." (Geeta Kapoor, "When was Modernism", 2000)

This image... "Mehta accepts the necessity of art-historical cross-referencing but privileges the analytical mode of structuring references. He thus makes the sources formally coeval and the image symbolic in the universal sense of that term. Tyeb Mehta`s inscription of a figural metaphor for terror on a brilliantly painted ground reads like a death mask in the context of twentieth-century art." (Geeta Kapoor, "When was Modernism", 2000)

This image of a `Trussed Bull`, converges upon the bull`s nose ring, creating a focal point to convey the disorder of its form. Addressing chaos and frustration, where daubs of paint move to distort the imagined form. A rebel in paint…the painting focuses on a `violence`, as if to move away from normal conventions and stability.

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