Lot 61: The Labyrinth of Eternal Delight

SURENDRAN NAIR (B. 1956) The Labyrinth of Eternal Delight signed, dated, numbered and titled (as illustrated) hand coloured etchings on paper 12¼ x 6½ in. (31.1 x 16.5 cm.) largest image 4¼ x 5 7/8 in. (10.8 x 14.9 cm.) smallest image 14¾ x 10¼ in. (37.5 x 26 cm.) each sheet Executed in 1996-2000 Artist Proof; Fourty-two prints on paper (42)

31.1 x 16.5 cm.

Mumbai, Sakshi Gallery, SPIN, 2000 New Delhi, Atelier 2221; Baroda, Nazar Gallery, The Labyrinth of Eternal Delight, 1997 (others from the edition exhibited) Hovikodden, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, The Tree from the Seed: Contemporary Art from India, 2003 New Delhi, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Is it what you think?, 2014 (others from the edition exhibited)

The Tree from the Seed: Contemporary Art from India, exhibition catalogue, Hovikodden, 2003 (unpaginated) R. Hoskote, Itenerant Mythologies: Surendran Nair, Mumbai, 2009, pp. 146-159 (others from the edition illustrated) Between the Lines: Identity, Place and Power, exhibition catalogue, Bangalore, 2012, pp. 110-111 (others from the edition illustrated) Surendran Nair's works combine Indian and Greek mythology in dreamlike compositions which remind us of the surrealist artworks of Rene Magritte. This beautiful set of 42 hand-coloured prints lets the viewer dive into a surrealist world of obscure creatures and landscapes, where the artist captures the unusual and the worrying in his scrupulous observation of objects of the most banal, everyday reality.

Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

Surendran Nair's works combine Indian and Greek mythology in dreamlike compositions which remind us of the surrealist artworks of René Margritte. This beautiful set of 42 hand-coloured prints lets the viewer dive into a surrealist world of obscure creatures and landscapes, where the artist captures the unusual and the worrying in his scrupulous observation of objects of the most banal, everyday reality.