| Medium | : | Watercolour |
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| Height | : | 24 inch / 61 cm |
| Width | : | 18 inch / 45.7 cm |
| Surface | : | Thick Imported Paper |
| Style | : | Figurative Paintings |
| Dimension | : | W: 45.7 cm × H: 61 cm |
A dreamlike watercolour artwork featuring a serene female figure surrounded by organic forms and symbolic human silhouettes. Expressive and contemplative, this original painting explores themes of femininity, identity, and the deep connection between human emotion and nature.
Kartick Chandra Pyne | Untitled | Watercolour on Thick Imported Paper | 24 x 18 inches
This intriguing watercolour artwork blends portraiture, symbolism, and surreal imagination into a visually compelling composition. At the centre is a serene female face emerging from flowing organic forms, framed by soft green leaf-like patterns that create a connection between the human figure and nature. Below, a procession of simplified female forms adds a narrative quality to the painting, suggesting themes of femininity, identity, growth, and collective memory.
The artwork carries a quiet emotional depth, balancing innocence with mystery. The artist’s use of soft blues, earthy greens, and muted tones creates a calm and dreamlike atmosphere, while the minimal detailing allows the symbolic elements to remain open to interpretation. The elongated composition and fluid brushwork give the painting a lyrical quality, almost like a visual poem unfolding across the paper.
Painted on thick imported paper, this original watercolour beautifully highlights the transparency and spontaneity of the medium. Rich in symbolism yet visually minimal, the artwork makes a thoughtful addition to contemporary interiors, personal collections, or spaces that celebrate introspective and expressive 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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