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G R Santosh
(1929 - 1997)

Portrait of Devi



"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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  Lot 52 of 102  

WINTER ONLINE AUCTION
14-15 DECEMBER 2022

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Winning Bid
Rs 18,00,000
$21,951

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

G R Santosh
Portrait of Devi

Bearing the 20th International Sao Paulo Biennale Brazil label and DAG label (on the stretcher bar, on the reverse)
1984
Acrylic on canvas
29.25 x 23.5 in (74.5 x 59.7 cm)

PROVENANCE
Acquired from DAG, 2012
Property from an Important Family Collection, New Delhi

EXHIBITED
Awakening: A Retrospective of G. R. Santosh, New Delhi: DAG, December 2011 - January 2012

PUBLISHED
Kishore Singh ed., Awakening: A Retrospective of G. R. Santosh, New Delhi: DAG, 2011, p. 156 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract


 









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