| 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 vibrant and expressive watercolour landscape featuring a sweeping tree branch against glowing pink, gold, and crimson fields. With its dreamlike atmosphere and poetic simplicity, this original artwork evokes stillness, emotion, and the quiet beauty of nature.
Kartick Chandra Pyne | Untitled | Watercolour on Thick Imported Paper | 22.5 x 30 inches
This striking watercolour artwork captures the emotional beauty of an abstract landscape through bold colour contrasts and graceful simplicity. A dark, sweeping tree branch stretches dramatically across the composition, standing against glowing fields of crimson, gold, rose, and violet. Tiny birds scattered across the scene introduce subtle movement and life, while the open space creates a deep sense of silence and reflection.
The painting feels both intimate and expansive, like a fleeting memory of dusk settling over an endless landscape. The artist’s fluid use of watercolour allows colours to softly merge and dissolve into one another, creating an atmospheric effect that is rich in mood and emotion. The stark black branch acts as a powerful visual anchor, balancing the softness of the surrounding tones and giving the composition a poetic tension.
Created on thick imported paper, this original artwork beautifully showcases the transparency and spontaneity of the watercolour medium. Its expressive style and luminous palette make it an elegant statement piece for modern interiors, art collections, and contemplative 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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