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<a href="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Indian-Modernist-V.S.-Gaitonde-Makes-History-gafencu-magazine-2.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53862" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Indian-Modernist-V.S.-Gaitonde-Makes-History-gafencu-magazine-2.png" alt="Indian Modernist V.S. Gaitonde Makes History gafencu magazine (2)" width="400" height="597" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Indian-Modernist-V.S.-Gaitonde-Makes-History-gafencu-magazine-2.png 400w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Indian-Modernist-V.S.-Gaitonde-Makes-History-gafencu-magazine-2-200x299.png 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Indian-Modernist-V.S.-Gaitonde-Makes-History-gafencu-magazine-2-188x280.png 188w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Indian-Modernist-V.S.-Gaitonde-Makes-History-gafencu-magazine-2-120x179.png 120w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></a>Untitled 1974 (sold at auction for US$4.5m) 
V.S.&nbsp;GAITONDE&nbsp;(1924-2001) 
Oil on canvas 
60 x 40 inches (152.5 x 101.6 cm.) 
Signed and dated in Devanagari and further signed and dated &#8216;V.S.&nbsp;GAITONDE&nbsp;1974&#8217; on 
reverse
A luminous canvas by the legendary Indian painter Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde went under the&nbsp;hammer for a staggering US$4.5m (Rs32cr) at Mumbai auction house Pundole’s in&nbsp;September 2020. The oil painting, Untitled (1974) came from the esteemed collection of the&nbsp;Japanese fish baron Masanori Fukuoka who owns the Glenbarra Museum, Japan. Smashing&nbsp;Gaitonde’s previous record, the painting set a new world record for Indian art.
Gaitonde—who passed away in 2001—has achieved near mythic status in the Indian art&nbsp;world. One of the country’s greatest abstract painters, Gaitonde was fascinated with Zen&nbsp;Buddhist philosophy, ancient calligraphy and Japanese pictorial motifs. These interests come&nbsp;to the fore in his work. Powerful and primal, the 1974 painting is suffused with diaphanous&nbsp;bands of colour upon which a series of mysterious geometric, linear shapes rest.
His technique was laborious; he built up paint in thin layers with a roller, then once dried, he&nbsp;would carefully scrape it off in areas using a palette knife. To create abstract forms, he would&nbsp;press torn pieces of newsprint into the wet paint and then lift them away. He added bits of&nbsp;cloth saturated with pigment, leaving them on the canvas for an impasto-like texture. The&nbsp;canvas, Untitled (1995), a work in private hands in Hong Kong, is a particularly striking&nbsp;example of the refinement and subtlety this technique yielded.
<a href="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Indian-Modernist-V.S.-Gaitonde-Makes-History-gafencu-magazine.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53863" src="//www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Indian-Modernist-V.S.-Gaitonde-Makes-History-gafencu-magazine.png" alt="Indian Modernist V.S. Gaitonde Makes History gafencu magazine" width="386" height="597" srcset="https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Indian-Modernist-V.S.-Gaitonde-Makes-History-gafencu-magazine.png 386w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Indian-Modernist-V.S.-Gaitonde-Makes-History-gafencu-magazine-200x309.png 200w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Indian-Modernist-V.S.-Gaitonde-Makes-History-gafencu-magazine-181x280.png 181w, https://www.gafencushop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Indian-Modernist-V.S.-Gaitonde-Makes-History-gafencu-magazine-120x186.png 120w" sizes="(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px" /></a>Untitled 1995 (with a Hong Kong collector) 
V.S. GAITONDE (1924–2001) 
Oil on canvas 
62 x 41.5 inches (157.5 x 105.4 cm) 
Signed and dated ‘V.S. GAITONDE 95’ on reverse
While Gaitonde’s oeuvre remains unrivalled in South Asian art history, like many other non-Western artists of his generation he has only recently gained international acclaim. His break-through moment came in 2014 when the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York&nbsp;held a retrospective of his work, in which Untitled (1974) was featured.
A deep thinker, Gaitonde is known for spending a great deal of time formulating paintings in&nbsp;his mind and allowing ideas to gestate. It comes as no surprise that he finished few canvases&nbsp;in his lifetime making the record-breaking painting an exceptionally rare find.
For more information, contact innervisionartwork@gmail.com.

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