Ganesh Haloi

Untitled

Auction Closed

October 24, 04:35 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Oxford

Ganesh Haloi

b. 1936

Untitled

Gouache on paper laid on card

Signed and indistinctly dated in Bengali lower right

56 x 61.9 cm. (22 x 24 ⅜ in.)

Painted circa early 1990s

Acquired from Gallery Maya, Hong Kong circa 1996

‘Over time, Haloi has given shape to an earth-toned abstract vocabulary that draws on a vast breadth of iconography, ideas, and movements: across sacred architecture, the Indian miniature painting tradition, the pilgrim city of Varanasi, and geographic terrain (the character of agrarian topography, flora, and stratification of rocks). In his paintings, Haloi is an itinerant traveler and so is the viewer—within strangely unbound time, one takes passage across the vastness of landscape, a floating geometry, the seduction of lines.’

- Natasha Ginwala

(Excerpt from essay in Q. Latimer and A. Szymczyk, Documenta 14 Daybook, Prestel, 2017, https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13580/ganesh-haloi)