Catalogue
GAUTAM JHANJEE
36/43 Blackall Street
Canberra 2600, Australia
web@gautamjhanjee.com
instagram: @gautamsacredart
+61 455 111 691
Gautam Jhanjee 2023
APRIL 2023 ISSUE ABOUT
Welcome to my April catalogue of artworks.
The pieces I have selected for this issue focus on the sacred traditions of East and West and range from calligraphic works on paper to larger paintings on canvas. I have had a very good time creating the artworks and putting together this catalogue. I hope you enjoy looking through the various pages.
I have begun with two Australian magpie paintings - these magical birds continues to be source of great delight and I never tire of painting them.
Cover image: ‘Ekadanta by the Rhythmic Sun’. Presented on p.9
SUMMARY SALE Magpies 5-8 Hindu Deities 9-10 Rigveda 11-12 Vedic Cosmology 13-16 Ramayana 17-18 Minotaur 19
SALE
APRIL ARTWORKS
For enquiries and purchases please get in touch via the email address below. I ship globally. All artworks are sold unframed and unstretched, either rolled or flat. This minimises shipping costs and allows buyers to select framing and presentation to suit the space in which the artworks will be displayed. Prices listed are in US dollars and exclusive of postage and packaging. My artworks come with a signed Certificate of Authenticity ensuring provenance.
Artworks are presented by categories, please check the table of contents.
Feel free to ask for prices if the artwork is listed with a price on request.
web@gautamjhanjee.com
instagram: @gautamsacredart
+61 455 111 691
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‘Bush Bird and the Great Artesian Basin’ Acrylic on wood panel
20 x 40 x 3.5 cm 2022
USD 525
The red Australian Earth with a magpie perched on a gum tree branch in the foreground. The Great Artesian Basin flows below across the vast continental expanse.
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‘Ekadanta by the Rhythmic Sun’
Acrylic on unstretched canvas
174 x 93 cm
2022
USD 5,150
The ultimate Earthly source, Surya, the Sun, pulsates in fiery reds and oranges by the ‘onetoothed’, Ekadanta, who holds his broken tusk in one of his four hands.
I was inspired by tribal and folk depictions of Ganesha presenting him as a more svelte figure than the numerous fullfigured depictions. His trunk reaches to the left to sample a delicacy from one of his left arms as per his traditional iconography.
Ekadanta is one of Lord Ganesha’s eight names mentioned in the ancient Amarakosha, a Sanskrit wordbook written by the Indian scholar Amarasimha, who was one of the Navaratnas (‘nine gems’) in the court of the Gupta Dynasty Emperor, Vikramaditya, around 400CE.
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'Vasishtha's Hymns of the Seventh Mandala’ Acrylic on Italian paper 150 x 110 cm 2022
USD 5,350
The revered sage Vasishtha sits on the left singing the seventh book (Mandala) of the Rigveda, which he composed. Vasishtha is one of the seven Saptarishis, or great sages, in Hinduism.
The visitor to the right seeks Vasishtha's wise counsel.
Vasishtha holds a seven petaled lotus flower - a symbol of his stature as one of seven Saptarishis and as a reference to the Rigveda text he authored.
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USD 645
‘Yuga’
Acrylic on wood panel
31x32.5x3.5cm 2022
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This painting on wood panel is inspired by the ancient Indian four part cycle of ages, a catur-yuga, and the never-ending sequence of creation and destruction.
This is reflected in the painting’s division into for quadrants, each reflecting a yuga, or great age. I sought to evoke the mysteries of space, time and cosmos with the colour pallet, which is drawn from photographs of cosmic phenomenon.
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India ink and watercolour on Italian paper 50 x 61.5 cm 2021
USD 825
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‘Magha’
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Magha is part of my wider body of calligraphic pieces. I imagined this painting as a sacred manuscript or even an archaic stone tablet, with written elements in different scripts, integrated with symbols and pictograms.
Magaha, one of the 27 Nakshastras in Vedic astrology, is associated with the fixed star, Regulus. It is strongly linked to the sign Leo and rulership. The colours are from the pallet of the Indian subcontinent with deep reds and dark earth tones and the saffron of the symbols.
The underpainting is in translucent watercolour washes and the final layers are in acrylic India Ink for colour saturation and potency.
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India ink and watercolour on Italian paper 50 x 61.5 cm 2021
USD 775
‘Dandakaranya’
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Acrylic on unstretched Indian canvas
101.7x92cm
2022
USD 3,250
‘Portrait of Minotaur’19
GAUTAM JHANJEE 36/43 Blackall Street Canberra 2600, Australia web@gautamjhanjee.com instagram: @gautamsacredart +61 455 111 691 Gautam Jhanjee 2023