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Lot Essay
In 1949, after Independence, I went to Paris. Suddenly I was confronted with a world which overwhelmed me because before that I never experienced such a fantastic exposure to modern art and for a time this totally confused me. I gradually began to determine what I thought was good, relevant to my work. The rest I discovered as I tried to understand what modern art was all about, concentrating on works of a few artists who I thought represented modernism in most aspects: Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Rouault, Chagall, Kandinsky and Klee. (N. Tuli, The Flamed Mosaic - Indian Contemporary Painting, Abrams, Ahmedabad, 1997, p. 378)