| 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, Landscapes |
| Dimension | : | W: 76.2 cm × H: 57.2 cm |
A soft and atmospheric watercolour artwork featuring abstract natural forms in gentle blue and earthy grey tones. Minimal yet emotionally rich, this original painting evokes quiet landscapes, drifting memories, and the peaceful rhythm of nature.
Kartick Chandra Pyne | Untitled | Watercolour on Thick Imported Paper | 22.5 x 30 inches
This captivating watercolour artwork transforms a simple natural scene into a deeply atmospheric and almost abstract visual experience. Soft washes of pale blue and muted grey flow gently across the composition, while clusters of delicate organic forms emerge like wild grasses, flowering shrubs, or distant foliage touched by light and mist. The textured patterns and scattered ink-like details create a rhythmic movement that feels both spontaneous and meditative.
The painting carries a quiet, dreamlike quality, inviting viewers to pause and immerse themselves in its subtle beauty. Rather than focusing on precise detail, the artist uses suggestion and texture to evoke emotion and memory, allowing the landscape to exist somewhere between reality and imagination. The restrained colour palette enhances the sense of calm, while the layered brushwork gives the artwork depth and softness.
Painted on thick imported paper, this original watercolour beautifully highlights the fluid transparency and unpredictability of the medium. Ideal for collectors who appreciate minimalist expressionism and contemplative abstract landscapes, this piece adds serenity, sophistication, and artistic warmth to contemporary interiors.
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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