Bonhams is offering these artworks on behalf of the George Gund III Trust. Signed and dated 1961 and 1963, they belong to Gaitonde's 'non-objective' series. The artist was in his late 30s when he created these paintings.
Vasudeo Gaitonde was born in 1924. He was a private person who wrote little about his art. In a rare interview with M Lahiri of 'The Patriot' in 1985 he had said, "Early on, I did both figurative and non-figurative paintings. I was initially influenced by Indian miniatures. You see, my sense of colour was weak, so I started copying the miniatures. Their vivid, vital, vibrant colours attracted me. Soon, to study the colours more closely, I started eliminating the figures and just saw the proportions of colours. I experimented with this because sometimes figures can bind you, restrict your movements. I just took patterns instead. I think that step really marked the beginning of my interest and pre-occupation in this area of painting."
The two paintings up for auction had passed from Morris Graves to George Gund through Humboldt Galleries of San Francisco in 1968. A collector of Japanese Zen painting and related art, Gund later donated various pieces to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. He was drawn to Gaitonde's fondness for Zen philosophy. The two works of variant blue hung on the walls of his San Francisco offices for 45 years.
A press release issued by Bonhams New York relies heavily on jargon to describe the works. It says, "The 1963 canvas, estimated to fetch $600,000-800,000, has a serene field of pale turquoise punctuated by a broken line of abstract hieroglyphic forms, pulsing in deep black and indigo hues. The 1961 canvas, estimated at $300,000-500,000, has a more dramatic tonal variation with an abyssal vertical band of blue interrupting the median horizontal line."
The auctioneer expects buyer interest because a retrospective of Gaitonde opens at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in October. This likely makes him one of the first Modern Indian artists to be honoured with a retrospective in the US.
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