K.G. RAMANUJAM (1941-1973)

Untitled (Dream)

Details

K.G. RAMANUJAM (1941-1973)
Untitled (Dream)
signed and inscribed 'K. Ramanujam CHOLAMANDAL' (on the reverse of the card)
ink and watercolor on paper laid on card
11 x 12 ½ in. (27.9 x 31.8 cm.)

Provenance

Private Collection, Mumbai
Heart Intuitive Logic II, 15 November 1997, lot 142
Osian's Mumbai, 19 January 2008, lot 94
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Mumbai, Prithvi Gallery, The Tension and Joy within the Line, 1 March - 19 April, 1997

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Lot Essay

"In a remarkable series of drawings done during his short life span, Ramanujam evolved a highly unorthodox style, revelling in an elaborate choreography of marks produced by the scratches of a pen, stroking rapidly over a white sheet of paper. Severing his drawings from all conventions of figure-ground relationships, he employed a network of verticals and horizontals, loops and twists to knit the image together." (S. Sawant, Manifestations III: 100 Artists from the Delhi Art Gallery Collection, New Delhi, 2005, p. 174)

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