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Lot 23 They hover between figuration and abstraction, and in many ways remind me of Ellsworth Kelly's photography. But they came from a totally different cultural perspective and a part of the world whose modernist history I didn't know. They anticipate how artists used photography much later, almost in a neo-Pictorialist manner [...] I also loved that her images are humble, not bombastic or big. It was something that really stayed with me -- that a humble work can also seem monumental.
- Philippe Vergne
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LALITHA LAJMI
- Philippe Vergne
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LALITHA LAJMI
NASREEN MOHAMEDI (1937-1990)
Untitled
Closed15 December 2015
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INR 1,875,000
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Nasreen always showed me her works whenever I went to Baroda, and her black and white photographs too. She often said to me "Lalitha, you understand my work; very few do." Perhaps we had some sort of rapport. The photographs, I remember, had strange images; even a speck in the sands interested her. Most of her photographs were shot in Bahrain and Kihim, where she had family homes. When Altaf and Navjot organised a retrospective of her work, and their daughter Sasha curated a show of some of her works in the Fine Art Company in Mumbai, I set my eyes on this photograph with perspective. I fell in love with it and purchased it. In Nasreen's photographs, one could see her fine sense of inanimate objects. Even an ant or a tiny form sometimes in the desert. I have never seen such works before!
- Lalitha Lajmi
- Lalitha Lajmi