Read on to learn about the late Indian Modernist artist V.S. Gaitonde who had left a lasting legacy
In September 2020, an unprecedented victory for Indian art had occurred within the walls of Pundole, an auction house in Mumbai. The late Indian Modernist Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde's oil painting, Untitled (1974), had been sold at an auction for 4.5 million dollars, surpassing his previous record. The painting comes from the collection of Masanori Fukuoka, owner of Glenbarra Museum in Japan.
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Gaitonde's Untitled (1974) painting exhibits geometrical lines that overlay bands of a diaphanous gradient of colours. Consequently, his discovery and fascination for Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies, calligraphy, and synthetic cubism reflect his works of abstraction.