| Medium | : | Watercolour |
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| Height | : | 18 inch / 45.7 cm |
| Width | : | 24 inch / 61 cm |
| Surface | : | Thick Imported Paper |
| Style | : | Figurative Paintings, Nude |
| Dimension | : | W: 61 cm × H: 45.7 cm |
A soft and poetic figurative artwork featuring intertwined human forms, beautifully expressing intimacy, vulnerability, and emotional connection through delicate lines and subtle watercolour tones.
Kartick Chandra Pyne | Untitled | Watercolour on Thick Imported Paper | 18 x 24 inches
This evocative artwork presents a delicate composition of intertwined human forms rendered with remarkable softness and emotional sensitivity. Created using minimal yet expressive linework, the painting captures a dreamlike atmosphere where the figures seem to float effortlessly within a tranquil space. The muted palette of pale greens, warm creams, and gentle earthy tones enhances the feeling of intimacy, calmness, and quiet reflection.
Rather than focusing on detailed realism, the artist embraces fluid contours and open space to convey emotion and connection. The relaxed postures of the figures suggest themes of vulnerability, companionship, and the natural harmony of the human body. The composition feels deeply personal yet universally relatable, inviting viewers to interpret their own emotions and narratives within the scene.
The subtle use of watercolour washes combined with graceful sketch-like lines gives the artwork a poetic and contemporary character. Its understated elegance makes it an ideal piece for sophisticated interiors, art collections, or spaces that appreciate thoughtful and emotionally expressive figurative art.
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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