G R Santosh

"Painting to me is like poetry - timeless and universal."

Poet-painter Gulam Rasool Santosh, who comes from the beautiful Kashmir valley, was born in 1929, in a middle class family. He once said in an interview, "In Kashmir, art was taught in school after class V. But I remember drawing in class II, starting, at the onset, on a landscape which I liked so much that I concentrated on landscapes, doing several of these before I changed...
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Honours and Awards
  • 1997 Doctorate of Literature (LittD), posthumous, by University of...
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    PAST AUCTIONS            
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    Lot 32 Details

    Summer Online Auction 26-27 June 2024

    G R Santosh

    Untitled

    Oil and encaustic on canvas

    32 x 32 in

    Winning bid
    $28,916
    Rs 24,00,000
    (Inclusive of buyer's premium)


    Lot 86 Details

    Summer Online Auction 26-27 June 2024

    G R Santosh

    Untitled

    Oil on canvas board

    23.5 x 19.5 in

    Winning bid
    $18,795
    Rs 15,60,000
    (Inclusive of buyer's premium)


    Lot 10 Details

    Winter Live Auction 13 December 2023

    G R Santosh

    Enlightenment

    Oil and wax on canvas

    34 x 41 in

    Winning bid
    $96,867
    Rs 80,40,000
    (Inclusive of buyer's premium)


    Lot 52 Details

    Summer Online Auction: Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art 28-29 June 2023

    G R Santosh

    Untitled

    Oil on canvas

    30 x 24 in

    Winning bid
    $29,448
    Rs 24,00,000
    (Inclusive of buyer's premium)


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    Lot 38 Details

    Absolute Tuesdays: Prints 5 December 2023

    G R Santosh

    a) Untitled
    Signed in Devnagari and...

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    Winning bid
    $1,301
    Rs 1,08,000
    (Inclusive of buyer's premium)


    Lot 32 Details

    Words and Lines 7 June 2022

    G R Santosh

    a) Untitled
    Signed in Devnagari and...

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    Winning bid
    $423
    Rs 32,160
    (Inclusive of buyer's premium)


    USD payement only Lot 22 Details

    Absolute Tuesdays 29 June 2021

    G R Santosh

    Pyramid

    Oil on canvas

    42 x 28 in

    Winning bid
    $4,450
    Rs 3,15,922
    (Inclusive of buyer's premium)

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    Lot 25 Details

    Absolute Tuesdays 4 May 2021

    G R Santosh

    Self Portrait

    Watercolour on paper pasted on mount board

    11.25 x 8.25 in

    Winning bid
    $1,503
    Rs 1,08,240
    (Inclusive of buyer's premium)


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    EXHIBITIONS            
    Showing 4 of 4 works

    Lot 430 Details

    Works on paper. 20 Feb-15 Mar 2003

    G R Santosh

    Sucide - Woman...

    Mixed media on paper

    9.75 x 13.25 in




    Lot 431 Details

    Works on paper. 20 Feb-15 Mar 2003

    G R Santosh

    Untitled -...

    Watercolour on paper

    14.5 x 10 in




    Lot 432 Details

    Works on paper. 20 Feb-15 Mar 2003

    G R Santosh

    Untitled -...

    Watercolour on paper

    23.25 x 17.25 in




    Lot 433 Details

    Works on paper. 20 Feb-15 Mar 2003

    G R Santosh

    Tantra Series

    Watercolour on paper

    22.5 x 15.75 in







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