V.S. Gaitonde
Subtitle: painting as process, painting as life
By: Sandhini Poddar
Contributors: Gaitonde, V. S. (Vasudeo S.), 1924-2000; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Publisher: DelMonico
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Munich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9783791353784
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Painting as process, painting as life
Description: A seminal colorist whose career remains unparalleled in the history of South Asian modern art, V.S. Gaitonde (1924-2001) was known to fellow artists and intellectuals as well as to later generations of students and collectors as a man of uncompromising integrity of spirit and purpose. Accompanying landmark exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, this book of important paintings and works on paper explores the context of Indian modern art as it played out in the metropolitan centers of Mumbai and New Delhi from the late 1940s through the end of the twentieth century.
Notes: Published to accompany the exhibitions held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 24th October 2014-11th February 2015; and at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 3rd October 2015-10th January 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.