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Lot 66
Sakti Burman
(1935)

Intimacy



Sakti’s figurative images comprise familiar motifs but they do not represent a familiar reality - rather, his work depicts an almost surreal expression. For, he paints no images distilled out of his direct experience of neither observed reality nor its equivalent, metaphorical or otherwise, distorted restructured. …... As he himself says: Very often there are a few motifs which appear in my work everything, I am living with....

Sakti’s figurative images comprise familiar motifs but they do not represent a familiar reality - rather, his work depicts an almost surreal expression. For, he paints no images distilled out of his direct experience of neither observed reality nor its equivalent, metaphorical or otherwise, distorted restructured. …... As he himself says: Very often there are a few motifs which appear in my work everything, I am living with. It can be a chair or the sofa in my drawing room, the landscape that I see from the window of my studio. The artist (Sakti himself) with his model and with his dreams and fantasies, or the members of my family. Reality gets mixed up with dreams in my works.”
(M. Majumdar, Sakti Burman: Dreamer on the Ark, Pundole Art Gallery, 2001, p. 130)

This painting has been illustrated in M. Majumdar, Sakti Burman: Dreamer on the Ark, Pundole Art Gallery, 2001, p.111



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  Lot 66 of 145  

AUCTION MAY 2005
10-12 MAY 2005

Estimate



Winning Bid
Rs 30,98,150
$72,050

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Sakti Burman
Intimacy

Signed in English (lower right)
1995
Oil on canvas
35 x 45.5 in (88.9 x 115.6 cm)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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