| Medium | : | Watercolour |
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| Height | : | 15 inch / 38.1 cm |
| Width | : | 22.5 inch / 57.2 cm |
| Surface | : | Thick Imported Paper |
| Style | : | Figurative Paintings, Landscapes |
| Dimension | : | W: 57.2 cm × H: 38.1 cm |
A moody and expressive watercolour landscape featuring bare trees, scattered branches, and solitary birds beneath a textured sky. Rich in atmosphere and quiet emotion, this original artwork beautifully reflects the resilience and poetry of nature.
Kartick Chandra Pyne | Untitled | Watercolour on Thick Imported Paper | 15 x 22.5 inches
This evocative watercolour artwork captures the raw beauty of a sparse and untamed landscape through expressive brushwork and atmospheric tones. Bare trees rise across the composition like silent witnesses to time, while scattered branches, perched birds, and muted earth colours create a scene filled with quiet emotion and mystery. The central tree, with its twisting form and outstretched limbs, becomes a powerful focal point within the otherwise open and desolate setting.
The painting carries a dreamlike stillness, where nature appears both fragile and enduring. Soft washes of blue, grey, beige, and earthy green blend seamlessly together, giving the landscape depth without overwhelming detail. The artist’s loose, fluid technique allows the scene to feel organic and deeply personal, inviting viewers to interpret its mood in their own way — whether as solitude, resilience, memory, or renewal.
Painted on thick imported paper, this original artwork beautifully highlights the delicate transparency of watercolour while preserving texture and spontaneity in every stroke. Ideal for collectors of contemporary Indian art and lovers of expressive landscapes, the piece brings thoughtful character and understated elegance to modern interiors and curated 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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