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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT INDIAN COLLECTION

SAKTI BURMAN

b.?1935

Lovers in Front of Sacre Coeur

Oil on canvas
2001
45¾ × 35? in. (116.2 × 89 cm.)
Signed ‘SAKTI BURMAN’ lower right and inscribed ‘SAKTI
BURMAN LOVERS IN FRONT OF SACRE-COEUR OF
PARIS 2001 (146 X 114)’ on reverse

??30,00,000?–?50,00,000

$ 44,775?–74,625

LITERATURE:
Manasij Majumder, Sakti Burman Dreamer on the Ark,
Mumbai, 2001, p.?162, pl.?110, illustrated.

‘Narration and enchantment are the two profound and cultural
constant elements of his poetical world and they are perfectly in
unison with each other… “Enchantment”… the surprise in front of
novelty and beauty of things. It is some thing that makes us
breathless, that puts us to meditation… it is not the absence of one’s
mind but a meditation of the infinite that is both in and out of us…
That probably is the essence of Sakti Burman’s paintings. The subtle
threads of desires and dreams give rise to a picture which slowly
slides from the past memories towards a laguna illuminated by
shining transparency of small and living images.’

(I. Pel. Luc. Calvero, ‘Sakti Burman’, Sakti Burman, Paris, 1984, unpaginated)

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