| 中文版 English
书画 陶瓷 玉石 佛造像/唐卡 金属器 家具 漆器 竹木牙角 紫砂 鼻烟壶 钱币邮品 名酒 奢侈品 其它
Calendar
Today
< >

具体要求

其它要求

-
关闭
全球拍卖首页 > Christie's > 南亚现代及当代印度艺术 > Lot 525
TYEB MEHTA (1925-2009)
美国 北京时间
2020年09月23日 开拍 / 2020年09月21日 截止委托
上一件 下一件
拍品描述 翻译
TYEB MEHTA (1925-2009) Untitled twice signed and dated 'Tyeb '74' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 58 5/8 x 49 in. (148.9 x 124.5 cm.) Painted in 1974 I became interested in using pure colour and began experimenting with large areas of colour. Normally brush marks suggest areas of directions. I wanted to avoid all this... to bring the elements down to such a minimal level that the image alone would be sufficient to speak for itself. - Tyeb Mehta, 2005 Following a year-long stay in New York on a Rockefeller III Fund Fellowship in 1968, Tyeb Mehta abandoned the expressionistic style and thickly applied paint that had characterized his work in the preceding years. Instead, he was moved by minimalism, most notably by the works of Barnett Newman that he encountered for the first time in person in the United States. Soon, Mehta began painting pristine planes of saturated color, delineated by smooth, economical lines. Busy canvases were replaced with harmonious decluttered compositions, as his early modernist approach that celebrated the medium of paint itself gave way to the centrality and totality of the image. Characterized by flattened and effortlessly minimalist forms, the most striking element of these new paintings was Mehta's bisection of the surface using a single diagonal line. These entirely new paintings came to be known as Mehta’s iconic 'diagonal series' and dominated his oeuvre in the 1970s. In the present lot, Mehta’s mulberry purple background is split open by segments of contrasting violet, red and blue color. The two central figures, seemingly spliced together with intertwined limbs, are violently divided by a clinically applied diagonal that partially bisects their torsos. This divide is echoed in the artist's crisp lines and triangles, and appears to extend across the painted surface from the lower left to upper right. The artist's control and restraint are evident here, allowing the viewer's gaze to rest on his figures unimpeded by any extraneous detail. Analyzing Mehta's works from this period, Prayag Shukla wrote, "Without the clutter of excessive detail on the picture-space, Tyeb refers us to an encounter - a relevant encounter - with humanity" (P. Shukla, 'The Question of Social Content: Four Artists, Lalit Kala Contemporary 24-25, New Delhi, 1978, p. 44). The artist's organization of line and color created a harmonious synergy that 'activated' the composition as Shukla noted. In the present work, the diagonal is elegantly suggested, echoing through the composition. Instead of using a bold diagonal to dominate the composition, Mehta chooses to maintain focus on the interaction of the two central protagonists. Their individual bodies are at once amalgamated and disjointed, both in form and palette. However, there seems to be a cosmic link established between the two figures that transcends physical contact and communicates a certain tension indicative of the larger social context to which they belong. The details in their faces reflect the pain and restlessness of their struggle for survival. In 1974, when this work was painted, Pria Karunakar described the powerful effects of Mehta’s paintings saying, "They induce a feeling of disorientation and yet the lonely gesticulating hands are tender and open, or splayed for support […] The emotional weight he throws into the canvas is expressionist at source, but it will freeze under the static definition of clean lines and angular edge" (P. Karunakar, 'Tyeb Mehta: Abstraction and Image', Lalit Kala Contemporary 17, New Delhi, 1974, p. 31). Fellow artist Jagdish Swaminathan discussed Mehta's celebrated diagonal series in detail, explaining, “What strikes one immediately in these works, is the strictly formal geometrical arrangement, or invocation of space-colour, and the line embodying the figure pulled apart like a doll and put together again – laid flat, defining, so to speak, the iconographic area […] What appears at first glance as a formal exercise in relating line to colour on a flat plane suddenly becomes very disturbing. While one was immediately moved by the angst portrayed in his former works, one could immediately reach out and share the unfathomable terror, the unrelieved sadness of man alienated, the present works enter the realm of the mystical; terror, pathos and sorrow are objectivised entities, masks, implacable deities, setting up a grotesque tableau. You enter a world of magic and are enthralled by the elemental dance of the emotions, which freeze and cease to speak the moment you seek to identify yourself with them. What Tyeb has achieved is a double transformation. In his former phase, he has isolated and insulated man’s loneliness, protecting it, so to speak, from the profane. Now he has set it up in its own right, impervious to human touch, yet threatening man’s complaisance” (J. Swaminathan in G. and U. Beier, ‘Contemporary Art in India’, Aspect: Art and Literature, Australia, no. 23, January 1982, unpaginated). The qualities so succinctly elucidated by Swaminathan come to bear in this accomplished painting by Mehta. While the striking composition arrests attention on first glance, it is the deeper sense of anguish and despair on an almost cosmological level that attributes Mehta’s canvas with such relentless potency. "His is a confrontation with human dignity, a true meditation on the murder of the human spirit" (K. Malik, 'As a Critic Looks at it', Lalit Kala Contemporary 37, New Delhi, 1991, p. 40).

本场其它拍品

  • 竞价阶梯
  • 快递物流
  • 拍卖规则
  • 支付方式
竞价区间 加价幅度
0
10
100
50
500
100
1,000
200
2,000
250
5,000
500
10,000
1,000
20,000
2,000
50,000
5,000
100,000
10,000
+

价格信息

拍品估价：1,000,000 - 1,500,000 美元 起拍价格：1,000,000 美元  买家佣金：
落槌价 佣金比率
0 - 300,000 25.00%
300,000 - 4,000,000 20.00%
4,000,000 - 以上 13.50%
服务费：平台服务费为成交总金额（含佣金）的3%

拍卖公司

Christie's
Christie's
地址： 20 Rockefeller Plaza New York
邮编： NY 10020
向卖家提问

小贴士

1. 一般拍卖公司接受的付款方式有以下几种：
现金、信用卡、转账汇款、银行支票、个人支票以及PayPal支付。
使用PayPal支付时，请留意需要在账单金额的基础上额外加上 4% 的手续费。
2. 信用卡的种类有以下几种：
3. 转账汇款时请注意银行手续费
海外拍企会要求足额到账，所以请您在汇款时，选择足额到账，或在汇款金额的基础上加上汇款手续费（如25美金）。
4. 国际转账汇款时， 您需要知道海外拍卖行以下汇款信息：
* 收款人名称
* 收款人地址
* 收款人银行账号
* 收款银行国际编码（8位字母数字组合，必填项， 如： BFKKAT2K）
* 收款银行清算码（9位数字组合，选填项）
* 收款银行名称
* 收款银行地址
5. 运输相关事项
有的海外拍卖行会替您安排和协调运输， 您只需要支付相关的运费及保险费（如您需要）即可；有的海外拍卖行会推荐几家长期合作的运输公司， 这些运输公司有着良好的信誉和高质量的工作效率，您大可放心。您只需要提供您的收货地址， 竞得拍品账单。 运输公司会根据您提供的信息给您报价， 您可以在其中选择最优的报价者来承担运输任务。然后就是付款了， 信用卡是最常用的支付手段， 当然还有其他像PayPal，转账等。
6. 进口通关可能出现的关税
国际运送的包裹在进口清关过程中如需支付关税，需由包裹接受人（即买家）自行承担。 征收标准：具体征收标准和额度以海关通知和解释为准。
7. 禁拍拍品
海外拍卖会可能会出现中国法律禁止交易的物品，如枪支、管制刀具、象牙、犀角等；中国买家不得通过本平台参与上述物品的拍卖活动；任何情形下，买家均须对自己的竞拍行为独立承担责任。
服务热线：400-608-1178
查看全部小贴士