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Lot 32
C. Douglas
Estimate : 3,00,000 - 5,00,000
C. Douglas (b.1951) is the rarest of the rare Indian modernist artists who can capture his emotions in lines, colours, abstractions, and figurative allegories. Writing about Douglas’ early works, art critic Josef James records that instead of drawing and then colouring his works, Douglas went on to find abstractions with patterns, rhythms, and structures through brush strokes and colour values. The formal devices in his paintings, the grids, triangles, frames and horizontal lines had a rigorous and rigid formal beauty.'

Douglas came to heavily rely on 'lines, figures and textured surfaces to construct his paintings. During his decade-long stay in Germany, Douglas was greatly influenced by the works of new Expressionists like Anselm Kiefer and Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) and he would say, 'Sometimes, I like to use the sand as a texture for my work, or tea stains, or tear the paper, or walk over, crumple it up, which is why I prefer to work on paper or any fragments that are there to create my own surface.'[...]

'The series Blind Poet & the Butterflies is also Douglas' tribute to his mentor K.C.S Paniker's series Words and Symbols (1964). The line is almost everything in Paniker's later work, Joseph James argues, '(he) proceeded to test his drawings by denying it the convenience of the image. If one is to rely on images, as one conventionally does, for making the lines of one's drawing cohere, drawing becomes something to which an otherwise known thing can be reduced'

(excerpt from C. Douglas: The Mind of an Artist by M.D. Muthukumaraswamy for Sahapedia, Published September 14, 2016

This artwork was exhibited at INCO Centre, Chennai in 2017
Hammer Price :
3,20,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 32000.00
Total
3,52,000
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C. Douglas (b.1951) is the rarest of the rare Indian modernist artists who can capture his emotions in lines, colours, abstractions, and figurative allegories. Writing about Douglas’ early works, art critic Josef James records that instead of drawing and then colouring his works, Douglas went on to find abstractions with patterns, rhythms, and structures through brush strokes and colour values. The formal devices in his paintings, the grids, triangles, frames and horizontal lines had a rigorous and rigid formal beauty.'

Douglas came to heavily rely on 'lines, figures and textured surfaces to construct his paintings. During his decade-long stay in Germany, Douglas was greatly influenced by the works of new Expressionists like Anselm Kiefer and Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) and he would say, 'Sometimes, I like to use the sand as a texture for my work, or tea stains, or tear the paper, or walk over, crumple it up, which is why I prefer to work on paper or any fragments that are there to create my own surface.'[...]

'The series Blind Poet & the Butterflies is also Douglas' tribute to his mentor K.C.S Paniker's series Words and Symbols (1964). The line is almost everything in Paniker's later work, Joseph James argues, '(he) proceeded to test his drawings by denying it the convenience of the image. If one is to rely on images, as one conventionally does, for making the lines of one's drawing cohere, drawing becomes something to which an otherwise known thing can be reduced'

(excerpt from C. Douglas: The Mind of an Artist by M.D. Muthukumaraswamy for Sahapedia, Published September 14, 2016

This artwork was exhibited at INCO Centre, Chennai in 2017

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