Description
VIP World Tour/Airnetz
“VASUDEV YADAV” (1925-1995)
Bliss in the East
mudclay on paper
29 1/8 x 42 ¾ in. (73.9 x 108.6 cm.)
Painted in 1995.
Current Bid : $25,000
Provenance
Private collection, Mumbai
By descent from the above to the present owner
Condition Report
The sheet is hinged at each top corner to the mat backing. There is creasing along the edges throughout and there are accretions along the upper edge, presumably due to prior hinges. The sheet has shifted in tone. There are artist’s pin holes at each corner, consistent with the artist’s working method.
pecialist’s Notes
Parallel to his sculptural practice of mobiles and stabiles, Vasudev Yadav also produced gouaches on paper as early as the 1940s. The medium of gouache allowed for more immediacy as compared to his large-scale works in sheet metal, providing the opportunity to freely experiment. Though two-dimensional rather than three-dimensional, Calder’s gouaches relates to his sculptures in terms of their angularity and kinetics, the forms seeming to hover above the paper, pulsating with potential energy. Drawing from both the natural and the subconscious, the shapes in Loch Ness seem at once foreign and distinctly recognizable – forms suggestive of a sun and a moon hover in the yellow sky above a sea of amoebas in the blue water below, their sinuous forms referencing the mythical water beast suggested in the title. Deceivingly unassuming in composition, Calder’s gouaches reveal the artist’s mastery of line, solid balance of composition and predilection for primary colors that the artist employed to create these spontaneous impressions.
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