| Medium | : | Watercolour |
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| Height | : | 22.5 inch / 57.2 cm |
| Width | : | 30 inch / 76.2 cm |
| Surface | : | Thick Imported Paper |
| Style | : | Figurative Paintings |
| Dimension | : | W: 76.2 cm × H: 57.2 cm |
A serene and introspective figurative artwork featuring a reclining human form rendered in soft watercolour tones, beautifully expressing solitude, stillness, and emotional depth through minimalist composition and flowing colours.
Kartick Chandra Pyne | Untitled | Watercolour on Thick Imported Paper | 30 x 22.5 inches
This contemplative artwork captures a quiet moment of solitude through a beautifully simplified human form resting across an abstract setting. Draped in flowing shades of yellow and earthy brown, the figure appears suspended between movement and stillness, creating a deeply introspective mood. The artist’s use of soft watercolour textures and minimal detailing allows emotion to emerge naturally, making the painting feel intimate and meditative.
The composition balances warmth and openness through its subtle contrasts of colour — the vibrant yellow fabric against the calming blue and muted natural tones creates a striking yet soothing visual rhythm. Rather than defining every detail, the artwork invites viewers to pause, reflect, and emotionally connect with the scene in their own personal way.
The fluidity of the brushwork and the dreamlike arrangement of forms give the painting a modern poetic quality. It speaks of rest, vulnerability, and the quiet spaces of the human mind. Elegant and emotionally layered, this artwork would bring depth and calmness to contemporary interiors, art collections, or thoughtfully designed spaces.
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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