Property from a Private Collector, FranceGanesh Haloib. 1936UntitledGoauche on paper laid on cardSigned and dated in Bengali lower right and further signed and inscribed 'Ganesh Haloi / AE - 420 / Sector- I / Salt Lake, Cal - 64 / Ph. 37 6691 / Rs. 40,000 /=' on reverse29 ⅞ x 24 ⅞ in. (75.9 x 63.2 cm.)Executed in 1994Acquired from Gallery 88, Kolkata, 1998-1999‘Over time, Haloi has given shape to an earth-toned abstract vocabulary that draws on a vast breadth of iconography, ideas, and movements: across sacred architecture, the Indian miniature painting tradition, the pilgrim city of Varanasi, and geographic terrain (the character of agrarian topography, flora, and stratification of rocks). In his paintings, Haloi is an itinerant traveler and so is the viewer—within strangely unbound time, one takes passage across the vastness of landscape, a floating geometry, the seduction of lines.’ - Natasha Ginwala (Excerpt from essay in Q. Latimer and A. Szymczyk, Documenta 14 Daybook, Prestel, 2017, https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13580/ganesh-haloi)