Artist field note

V.S. Gaitonde

Silence with a surface.

Appears inIndia
Untitled by V.S. Gaitonde — Example from the series
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Untitled

1962

Floating marks hover in a restrained field. The painting asks for slower looking than its scale initially suggests.

The five in one idea

Gaitonde showed that abstraction could be intensely present without being loud, gestural or attached to a story.