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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SUMMER ONLINE AUCTION
13-14 JUNE 2018
Estimate
Rs 25,00,000 - 35,00,000
$37,880 - 53,035
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Rs 26,04,096
$39,456
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ARTWORK DETAILS
Anju Dodiya
Opus
Signed, inscribed and dated 'Anju/ ANJU DODIYA/ 2007/ "OPUS"' (on the reverse of the paperwork)
2007
Watercolour and charcoal on paper and embroidery on printed mattress
85 x 55.5 in (215.8 x 141 cm)
The work is a double-panelled painting
EXHIBITED:Throne of Frost: Anju Dodiya , Mumbai: Bodhi Art, 7 April - 31 May 2007; Vadodara: Laxmi Vilas Palace, March 2007 PUBLISHED:All Night I Shall Gallop: Anju Dodiya , Singapore: Bodhi Art, 2008, p. 9 (illustrated)Throne of Frost: Anju Dodiya , Mumbai: Bodhi Art, 2007, pp. 118-121 (illustrated) T Mehta, ART India , Volume XII, Issue I, Quarter I, Mumbai: Art India Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2007, pp. 116-117 (illustrated)
Category: Painting
Style: Figurative