| 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, Landscapes |
| Dimension | : | W: 76.2 cm × H: 57.2 cm |
A serene watercolour painting featuring tall trees beside a calm shoreline under an open sky. With its minimalist composition and gentle colour palette, this original artwork evokes stillness, solitude, and quiet reflection.
Kartick Chandra Pyne | Untitled | Watercolour on Thick Paper | 22.5 x 30 inches
This minimalist watercolour artwork captures the quiet beauty of a peaceful shoreline through a delicate balance of space, colour, and form. Three tall tree trunks stand silently in the foreground, framing a calm expanse of water and a soft horizon washed in pale blues, warm yellows, and gentle earth tones. A small solitary bird resting near the base of the trees adds a subtle sense of life and contemplation to the composition.
The painting carries a meditative stillness, where simplicity becomes deeply expressive. Loose brushwork and translucent layers of watercolour create an airy atmosphere, allowing light and emptiness to play an important role in the visual experience. The restrained composition invites viewers to slow down, reflect, and connect emotionally with the serene landscape.
Created on thick imported paper, the artwork beautifully highlights the fluid nature of watercolour while preserving texture and tonal softness. Ideal for modern interiors, reading spaces, galleries, or collectors of contemporary Indian art, this piece brings calmness, elegance, and poetic simplicity into any environment.
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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