Lot 17: Untitled

NASREEN MOHAMEDI (1937-1990) Untitled ink and pencil on paper 20½ x 20½ in. (52.1 x 52.1 cm.) Executed circa late 1970s

52.1 x 52.1 cm.

circa

Gifted by the artist to the current owner in the late 1970s

Nasreens work, founded on absence, is about the self. That through a series of displacements she touches and transcends death, but that the insistently elided questions about the self are precisely such that offer up meaning in her work. That she is therefore within a great lineage of metaphysical abstraction in a way that no other Indian artist is. G. Kapur,'Elegy for an Unclaimed Beloved: Nasreen Mohamedi 1937-1990,' when was modernism, New Delhi, 2007, p. 61