Lot 136: CHITTROVANU MAZUMDAR (b. France 1956)

Untitled
signed lower right: C MAZUMDAR; signed and inscribed on reverse: Acrylic on canvas Chittrovanu MAZUMDAR
acrylic on canvas
59 1/2 x 71 1/2 in. (151 x 181.8 cm.)

Chittrovanu Mazumdar uses style as subject matter often vacillating between the realms of naturalism and abstraction within the boundaries of a single work. In this painting, Mazumdar juxtaposes beauty with the grotesque, offering the viewer two competing images of lust and the body. Painted against a carefully rendered minimalistic background, Mazumdar situates his representative images on the canvas with a spatial disposition attributed more to collage than painting. His pairing of an enraptured female face with a cropped view of a woman's knees conjures notions of sex, which are both enticing and disquieting.