Signed 'Sakti Burman' (lower right)
Further titled, dated and and signed 'Les Enfant / 1974 / Sakti Burman' (on the reverse)
PROVENANCE
Galleria Nuovo Sagittario, Milan
Private Collection, Parma
Private Collection, Dubai
LOT ESSAY
'Sakti is a pilgrim of complex allegiances: in his deceptively buoyant and pleasurable paintings, we may discern the perennial, the ongoing, the never-to-be-resolved but immensely productive dialogue of Here and There, Was and Not-yet, Self and Other. Indeed, these categories break down in the face of his work, because Sakti does not treat any identity as static: his protagonists define themselves in the flux of their engagement with one another [...] What the pilgrim proposes, for us, is the image of a universe that is churning with contradictions, ambivalences, multiplicities - a universe that is never still, that is never assured of that stillness beyond change which, the idealist philosophers insist, lies beyond the agitation of appearance.' (Ranjit Hoskote, Sakti Burman: Recent Work, Exhibition catalogue, Pundole Art Gallery / Apparao Galleries, 2006)