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Satish GUJRAL (Pakistan, 1925 - India, 2020) Untitled,1987 Charcoal on paper 75 x 75 cm Signed lower right in Hindi and dated 1987 Label on back: "Acquired at the art auction in aid of the Delhi Commonwealth Women's Association clinic held on December 4, 1987 at the Australian High Commission, New Delhi". *** Charcoal on paper, signed in Hindi and dated lower right, 29½ × 29½ in. Executed in 1987. Provenance Charity sale in aid of the Delhi Commonwealth Women's Association Clinic, Australian High Commission, New Delhi, December 4, 1987; private collection Italy This work marks a turning point in Satish Gujral's career: at the peak of his architectural career - he has just completed the Belgian Embassy in New Delhi - he shifts to a more assertive abstraction. Treated in black, white and grey, the composition evokes the world of architectural drawing: rapid lines, superimposed planes, lines of force and volumes in tension, like an elevation simultaneously decomposing and reconstructing itself. The pictorial material, dense and masterful, produces an internal vibration where constructive rigor dissolves into a freer writing, structure becoming rhythm. Born in the undivided Punjab (now Pakistan), Gujral was built on rupture: deafened at the age of eight following an accident, this founding silence gave lasting structure to his relationship with the world. Trained at the Mayo School of Art in Lahore, then at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Bombay, he evolved in the context of post-Independence Indian modernism without fully joining the Progressive Artists movement, developing an autonomous path rooted in a personal rereading of forms, myths and Indian memory.