The Surya Collection: Property from Mrs. Ute Rettberg

The Surya Collection: Property from Mrs. Ute Rettberg

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May 31, 01:23 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Ambadas Khobragade

1922 - 2012

Untitled


Oil on canvas

Signed in Devanagari and dated '1973' lower left and further signed and dated 'Ambadas / 1973' on reverse

81.3 x 81.3 cm. (32 x 32 in.)

Painted in 1973

Acquired directly from the artist, Surya Galerie, Freinsheim, 1973
Germany, Freinsheim, Surya Galerie, 1973

Born in 1922, Ambadas Khobragade is a celebrated non-representational Indian artist. His paintings, with their exquisite colouration and fluid lines, are decidedly non-representational and yet hold subtle echoes of the natural world.


'... the surface [of Ambadas' paintings] looks very much like a coloured relief and it is woven with small strands and skeins of tonality… It is like watching the waves in a lake on a sunny afternoon: the gentle breeze plays on them and by gravitational pull sweeps away in the direction of the wind.' 


(‘Lyrical Abstraction’, Link, 18 April 1976. Courtesy Surya Archives.)