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Lot 31 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, BELGIUM
JAGDISH SWAMINATHAN (1928-1994)
Untitled
Closed26 May 2016
Price Realised
GBP 86,500
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There is something in the vast complex of our racial psyche, from the austere, crystalline poetry of our Vedic forbearers to the awesome pantheon of gods and demons, from the abstract metaphysics of Hindu thought to the threatening totems of the folk ritual, that bears its head against the wall of the Pseudoscience that our so-called intelligentsia has inherited from Modern Western culture. It is only when Indian painters tear asunder the false veil of Western progressivism that he will be able to make the "Numinous" image manifest and create art significant to us, and so to the world.
(J. Swaminathan, 'The New Promise', Lalit Kala Contemporary 40, New Delhi, 1995, p. 20)
(J. Swaminathan, 'The New Promise', Lalit Kala Contemporary 40, New Delhi, 1995, p. 20)