| Medium | : | Watercolour |
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| Height | : | 22.5 inch / 57.2 cm |
| Width | : | 30 inch / 76.2 cm |
| Surface | : | Imported Paper |
| Style | : | Figurative Paintings |
| Dimension | : | W: 76.2 cm × H: 57.2 cm |
A lyrical watercolor painting featuring two surreal fish-like forms floating through soft, flowing washes of color. Gentle, mysterious, and deeply contemplative, the artwork evokes themes of movement, connection, and the quiet beauty of the natural world.
Kartick Chandra Pyne | Untitled | Watercolour on Imported Paper | 30 x 22.5 inches
This evocative watercolor painting transforms two elongated fish-like forms into poetic symbols drifting through a dreamlike aquatic world. With fluid brushstrokes and a restrained palette of soft blues, muted violets, and pale greens, the artwork carries an atmosphere of silence, movement, and quiet introspection.
The figures appear suspended between realism and imagination, gliding effortlessly across the textured surface like fragments of memory or myth. Their simplified forms and delicate detailing create a sense of mystery, inviting the viewer to interpret the narrative in their own personal way. The subtle white markings along their bodies add rhythm and visual balance, while the flowing background mimics the gentle currents of water and time itself.
There is an unmistakable meditative quality in the composition — calm yet emotionally layered. The painting speaks of companionship, migration, and the unseen harmony of nature. Its minimal aesthetic and soft transparency allow the work to breathe, making it feel both contemporary and timeless.
Perfect for collectors drawn to symbolic and introspective art, this piece brings serenity, imagination, and a quiet emotional resonance into any interior space.
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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