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V S Gaitonde
(1924 - 2001)

Untitled



It was in the early 1960s, when Gaitonde was painting in a studio at the Bhulabhai Desai Memorial Institute in Mumbai, that he began his experiments with pigment and texture to create a series of large, ‘non-objective’ canvases. Travelling to the United States in 1964 on a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Gaitonde encountered and was deeply moved by the work of artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Mark Rothko, cementing his beliefs that painting...



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  Lot 45 of 90  

SUMMER AUCTION 2010
16-17 JUNE 2010

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Winning Bid
Rs 1,47,48,750
$327,750

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

V S Gaitonde
Untitled

1969
Oil on canvas
59 x 39.5 in (149.9 x 100.3 cm)

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract


 









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