Man who wrote in colour
Man who wrote in colour
Ashok Ogra
There aren’t many artists nowadays who let their work be noticed and not themselves. Mohan Raina (1928-1983) was one such artist who was not too keen to announce his arrival. He preferred to function not through words but through colour and line. He felt deeply but expressed himself sparingly; his gentleness visible even in his paintings.
It is, therefore, heartening that his son, Sudesh Raina, has come out with a definitive semi-pictorial biography ART IN KASHMIR & MOHAN RAINA THE CREATIVE GENIUS. The author has managed to put together a book that is very interesting and offers many new and rare insights into the man who excelled in almost all forms of art – creating over 1000 landscapes, abstracts, portraits, monograms, logos and many more. However, in his widening oeuvre, alluring landscapes became his hallmark motif.
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The name of VS Gaitonde shot into prominence in the global art market in 2013, after an oil painting by the artist fetched ₹20.5 crore at a Christie’s auction in India. The huge interest it generated led to a retrospective at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York, the following year. Since then, Gaitonde’s work has featured in auctions regularly and sold for impressive sums.
Although critically admired by his contemporaries, Gaitonde’s commercial recognition came much later, almost entirely posthumously. Last month, a painting by him set a world record for Indian art by fetching ₹32 crore at a Pundole’s auction. An upcoming auction by Sotheby’s on 29 September estimates one of his paintings to fetch £1.5-2 million ( ₹15-20 crore). Apart from Gaitonde’s work, the auction features paintings by