| Medium | : | Acrylic |
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| Height | : | 36 inch / 91.4 cm |
| Width | : | 42 inch / 106.7 cm |
| Dimension | : | W: 106.7 cm × H: 91.4 cm |
| Year | : | 2004 |
A semi-abstract depiction of a reclining female figure intertwined with leaf-like forms, rendered in earthy tones. The artwork blends nature and human emotion, creating a dreamlike and introspective visual narrative.
Kartick Chandra Pyne | Intrigue | Acrylic on Canvas | 36 x 42 inches | 2004
This evocative painting presents a surreal and intimate composition centered around a reclining female figure, partially enveloped by oversized, organic leaf forms. Rendered in a fluid, semi-abstract style, the figure’s face emerges softly from a landscape of undulating shapes and earthy tones. The artist employs a harmonious palette of greens, ochres, browns, and muted reds, creating a dreamlike atmosphere that blurs the boundaries between the human form and nature.
The elongated features, stylized contours, and gentle distortions lend the composition a poetic ambiguity—inviting viewers to interpret the narrative as one of introspection, concealment, or quiet sensuality. The layering of forms and rhythmic lines suggests both protection and entrapment, while the leaves act as symbolic elements—perhaps representing shelter, growth, or the subconscious mind.
Born into an aristocratic family of gold merchants, Kartick Chandra Pyne took an interest in art at an early age.
The older cousin of Ganesh Pyne, another remarkable Indian modernist,
K. C. Pyne graduated in fine arts from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta, in 1955. Later, he taught at Calcutta’s Indian College of Arts and Draughtsmanship in the 1970s, and the Academy of Fine Arts in the ’80s.
One of India’s foremost surrealist painters who was influenced by artists such as Rabindranath Tagore, Marc Chagall, and Joan Miró, Pyne famously said, ‘I did not really know that I worked in the surrealist style till it was pointed out to me.’ His works, spontaneous and individualistic, had surreal imagery in bold colours. A four-time winner of the award of the Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, Pyne had represented India in the exhibition titled ‘100 Years of Modern Indian Art’ held at the Fukuoka Museum, Japan, in 1979.
An intensely private person, he preferred to pause, reflect and focus on painting while exploring a range of subjects — myth, fables, human stories, culture, memories, fantasy, erotica — in a vibrant palette. Art, for Pyne, was an intimate approach, thus requiring the artist to still the mind and experience the meditative aspect of creation.
Nothing stopped him, not even a paralytic stroke that affected the left side of his body in 1994. In fact, in the late ’90s, Pyne painted his acclaimed nude series. He was painting till a year before his death, for as long as he could hold a brush, at his home in Kolkata.
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