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Lot No. 83
V S GAITONDE
1924-2001

UNTITLED
29.5 x 20 in (75 x 50.8 cm)
Watercolour on paper
1963
Signed & Dated: Bottom Right

` 60,00,000 - 80,00,000 | $ 73,171 - 97,561

Provenance: Property from a Parsi collection
based in Mumbai.

V. S. Gaitonde was born in 1924 in Nagpur.
He completed his art diploma at Sir J. J.
School of Art in 1948. Impressed by his
vision he was invited to join the influential
Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group in 1950.
A man of few words, he communicated
through his artistic dialect. He absorbed the
universe within to extract symbols which
transcended on the surface. He audaciously
wandered off and forged a silent iridescent
path with his personalised calligraphic
vocabulary. Constructing, inventing and
interpreting symbols and muted surfaces
he instilled a distant silence into his works.
VS Gaitonde’s eventual arrival upon
the visual portrayal of the conscience
was an elaborate evolutionary journey
substantiated with his internal findings. Along
the path he constantly erased the identity
of the artist in order to transform himself
into becoming the conduit for the unknown.

The 70’s was a pertinent juncture pertaining
to his quest, it marks that stage when he
was in completeness able to purge mortal
frequencies from the canvas. His works from
the 70’s projected an aura of the victorious
emancipation he had attained, that being
the metamorphosis of the opaqueness
of colour. Recognition also came from
institutions, considering he was conferred
with the title of Padma Shri in the year 1971.