Live Auction 19110A Lasting Engagement: The Jane and Kito de Boer Collection
K.G. RAMANUJAM (1941-1973)
Lot 446

K.G. RAMANUJAM (1941-1973)

Untitled (Dream)

Closed23 September 2020

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USD 7,500

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K.G. RAMANUJAM (1941-1973)
Untitled (Dream)
signed and inscribed 'K. Ramanujam CHOLAMANDAL' (on the reverse of the card)
ink and watercolor on paper laid on card
11 x 12 ½ in. (27.9 x 31.8 cm.)

Private Collection, Mumbai
Heart Intuitive Logic II, 15 November 1997, lot 142
Osian's Mumbai, 19 January 2008, lot 94
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"In a remarkable series of drawings done during his short life span, Ramanujam evolved a highly unorthodox style, revelling in an elaborate choreography of marks produced by the scratches of a pen, stroking rapidly over a white sheet of paper. Severing his drawings from all conventions of figure-ground relationships, he employed a network of verticals and horizontals, loops and twists to knit the image together." (S. Sawant, Manifestations III: 100 Artists from the Delhi Art Gallery Collection, New Delhi, 2005, p. 174)