AUTHENTICITY GUARANTEE: We guarantee the authenticity of all our items V S Gaitonde Marker Sketch on Paper Marker Sketch of Indian Woman On Paper Signed upper right corner and year subject seated woman pouring some libation overhead, side profile of both body and face paper colored with age measures 6.25 inches wide by 9 inches tall Framed in gilt wood frame measures 18.5 x 14.5 inch Mueseum glass with 99% UV protection and amazing clarity Sketch, Marker Drawing, 1973 Vasudeo S. Gaitonde was regarded as one of India's foremost abstract painters. He completed his art diploma at Sir J. J. School of Art in 1948, and in 1950 was invited to join the influential Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. He received Padma Shri Award in 1971. An artist of singular stature, modernist painter Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde (1924–2001) was known to fellow artists and intellectuals, as well as to later generations of students and admirers, as a man of uncompromising integrity of spirit and purpose. Born in Nagpur, India in 1924, Gaitonde…remained independent throughout most of his career. This exhibition draws an arc from Gaitonde’s early, figurative, mixed-medium compositions and watercolors inspired by Paul Klee, through his major bodies of signature canvases from the 1960s and ’70s, to his late works from the 1980s and ’90s. Departing from Klee, Gaitonde’s practice began in the late 1950s in a nonrepresentational mode—or, as he preferred to call it, a nonobjective style. Gaitonde scorned sentimentality in his biography and his artistic practice. …Stressing the importance of the present moment, the completeness and joy of the creative process, and the intimate relationship between painter and painting, “Gai,” as he was popularly known among peers, was an intrepid and influential artist whose career remains unequaled in the history of South Asian modern art. Gaitonde’s work spans the traditions of nonobjective painting and Zen Buddhism as well as Indian miniatures and East Asian hanging scrolls and ink paintings. When looking at Gaitonde’s oeuvre within the wider related context of international postwar art, one can also draw parallels to artists working within the contemporary School of Paris, as well as movements such as Art Informel, Tachisme, and Abstract Expressionism. Yet Gaitonde’soutput continues to be defined by the particular ethos of India, where the artist lived and worked his entire life. After suffering from severe injuries in an accident in 1984, Gaitonde was unable to cope with painting large canvases. He consequently turned to the smaller format of works on paper. These consist of non-mimetic calligraphic and hieroglyphic markings made with spontaneous gestures and rhythmic movements. These works unveil Gaitonde's understanding of the silences of Zen as well as the dynamics of Tantra and later form an important part of his overall oeuvre. Gaitonde’s works reside in numerous museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York (the first Western museum to purchase one of his works, in 1963) the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Bengaluru, and Mumbai. According to Deepanjana Klein, ‘95 to 98 per cent of Gaitonde’s collectors are of Indian origin, but his works are also sought out by Western collectors who got to know him during their tenure in India in the 1960s.’ |
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