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56 ‘The familiar stuff of dreams: snakes, fish fruit, flowers,
hand, breast, appear in a soft welter of forms, curiously
56 # afloat or held in limbo, evoking associations which erotic
in a tender, mellow way. The animal and vegetable forms
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL are both friable and damp, so that they seem to possess
COLLECTION a strange kind of sentience. While this has surrealist
undertones, it is largely absent in the rest of his work.’
JOGEN CHOWDHURY (Deepak Ananth, ‘An Engagement with Reality’, India: Myth
and Reality Aspects of Modern Indian Art, exhibition
b.?1939 catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1982, p.?55)

Fruit I

Ink and oil pastel on paper
1996
8 × 7? in. (20.2 × 18.7 cm.)
Signed and dated ‘JOGEN / 96’ lower left and further
signed and dated in Bengali lower right and inscribed
‘“Fruit I” (1996) / Jogen Chowdhury / Ink & oil Pastel on
Paper / Size: 20.4 × 19 cm. / 5/9/96’ on reverse

??6,00,000?–?8,00,000

$ 8,955?–11,940

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