| Medium | : | Watercolour |
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| Height | : | 22.5 inch / 57.2 cm |
| Width | : | 30 inch / 76.2 cm |
| Surface | : | Thick Imported Paper |
| Style | : | Animals paintings, Figurative Paintings |
| Dimension | : | W: 76.2 cm × H: 57.2 cm |
A serene and whimsical artwork featuring stylised fish forms in soft watercolour tones, beautifully capturing movement, harmony, and the quiet rhythm of aquatic life through minimalist expression.
Kartick Chandra Pyne | Untitled | Watercolour on Thick Imported Paper | 30 x 22.5 inches
This playful and visually rhythmic artwork presents a fascinating arrangement of stylised fish forms floating across a calm blue background. Rendered with minimal lines and soft watercolour textures, the composition carries a sense of movement, lightness, and quiet harmony. Each fish appears unique in size and direction, yet together they create a beautifully balanced visual flow that feels both meditative and lively.
The artist uses simplicity as a powerful storytelling tool, transforming ordinary aquatic forms into expressive symbols of freedom, community, and life’s natural rhythm. The gentle colour palette of cool blues, muted pinks, and soft neutrals gives the artwork a refreshing and contemporary appeal while maintaining an almost dreamlike innocence.
The repetitive arrangement of the fish creates a soothing pattern that invites viewers to pause and observe the subtle individuality within the collective movement. Elegant yet whimsical, this artwork brings a calming energy to interiors and works beautifully in modern living spaces, creative environments, or curated art collections inspired by nature and abstraction.
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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