| Medium | : | Watercolour |
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| Height | : | 18 inch / 45.7 cm |
| Width | : | 24 inch / 61 cm |
| Surface | : | Imported Paper |
| Style | : | Figurative Paintings |
| Dimension | : | W: 61 cm × H: 45.7 cm |
A serene and introspective watercolor depicting a solitary fish drifting beneath a radiant sun, set against a tranquil landscape. Soft washes and expressive strokes create a dreamlike atmosphere, inviting quiet reflection and personal interpretation.
Kartick Chandra Pyne | Untitled | Watercolour on Thick Imported Paper | 18 x 24 inches
This evocative watercolor presents a quiet yet deeply poetic scene — where land, water, and sky seem to melt into one another. At first glance, the composition feels minimal, but the longer you look, the more it unfolds. A solitary fish-like form drifts gently across a pale, almost dreamlike expanse of water, its body rendered in loose, expressive strokes that suggest both presence and fragility.
Above, a glowing sun hangs in a softly textured sky, surrounded by warm hues of ochre, blush, and hints of blue. The distant green hills anchor the composition, offering a sense of calm continuity between earth and sky. The entire scene feels suspended in time — neither day nor night, neither real nor imagined.
There’s a subtle emotional undertone here: a feeling of solitude, perhaps even quiet resilience. The fish, isolated yet at peace, becomes a metaphor — open to interpretation. The artist’s fluid brushwork and restrained palette allow the viewer to step in and complete the story with their own emotions and memories.
Executed in watercolor on thick imported paper, the work carries a delicate transparency and softness that enhances its contemplative mood. It is a piece that doesn’t demand attention loudly but instead draws you in slowly, rewarding patience with depth.
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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