| Medium | : | Watercolour |
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| Height | : | 20 inch / 50.8 cm |
| Width | : | 30 inch / 76.2 cm |
| Surface | : | Thick Paper |
| Style | : | Animals paintings, Figurative Paintings |
| Dimension | : | W: 76.2 cm × H: 50.8 cm |
A serene and imaginative watercolour artwork depicting a mystical riverside scene with a floating fish, silhouetted trees, and birds under a twilight sky. Rich in mood and symbolism, this original painting beautifully combines minimalism with emotional depth.
Kartick Chandra Pyne | Untitled | Watercolour on Thick Paper | 20 x 30 inches
This atmospheric artwork beautifully captures the quiet poetry of an open landscape through soft watercolour washes and minimal yet expressive forms. The composition stretches across vast fields of green and yellow beneath a moody sky, creating a feeling of openness, silence, and gentle movement. In the foreground, delicate animal figures and a small group of people appear almost like fleeting memories within the landscape, adding a subtle narrative quality to the scene.
The artist’s restrained use of detail allows emotion and imagination to take centre stage. The earthy branches cutting across the composition create a natural visual rhythm, while the sparse human and animal forms evoke themes of coexistence, journey, and the calm simplicity of rural life. The muted palette and fluid brushwork give the painting a dreamlike softness, inviting viewers into a world that feels both familiar and deeply reflective.
Rather than depicting a specific moment, the artwork captures an emotional atmosphere — one of stillness, distance, and quiet connection with nature. Elegant in its simplicity, this piece would bring warmth, calmness, and contemplative beauty to modern interiors, art collections, or thoughtfully 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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