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Jyoti Bhatt
(B.1934)
Seaview Scenery

Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art

5 June 2024, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £70,250 inc. premium

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Jyoti Bhatt (B.1934)

Seaview Scenery
signed 'Jyoti Bhatt 63' in Gujrati lower left
oil, cement and iron on jute, framed
49.6 x 70cm (19 1/2 x 27 9/16in).

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Provenance
Property from a private collection, Denmark.
Acquired from an Estate.

Published
Delhi Art Gallery, Jyoti Bhatt: Parallels that Meet, Pragati Offset Pvt. Ltd., 2007, pg. 34 (another edition)

Note: There is a gallery Chemould label on the reverse with details of the artist, title of the work, medium, price, total price and exhibited at information.

This as what could be called the 'textured surface phase' when I was taken over completely by the potential expressions of surfaces created with various materials. (Jyoti Bhatt, Parallels that Meet, Pragati Offset Pvt. Ltd., 2007, pg. 107)

Bhatt is a multifaceted artist and is known for having experimented with various mediums throughout his career. A painter, printmaker and photographer, Seaview Scenery was created in 1963, the year after he completed his studies at the Academia di Bella Arti, Naples, Italy (1961-62). At the Academia he studied painting and etching and there was a shift towards depicting landscapes and simplified still life, as well as extreme close-ups of surfaces of seascapes, desert experiences and forts and monuments. Inspired by the abstract paintings of the Spanish and Italian artists, Antonio Tapies and Alberto Burri, Bhatt started emphasising the tactile quality of surfaces and experimented with non-art materials. He used pebbles, jute, sand, iron pieces, plywood, texture white, linoleum, brass sheets and polyvinyl alcohol adhesive to create multiple raised surfaces of varies textures and colour bands, where each painting evokes a bird's eye view of the subject under scrutiny via the constituent of distance. Seaview Scenery is a fine example of this style from this period, and beautifully showcases Bhatt's accomplishments.

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