| Medium | : | Watercolour |
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| Height | : | 20 inch / 50.8 cm |
| Width | : | 30 inch / 76.2 cm |
| Surface | : | Paper |
| Style | : | Animals paintings, Figurative Paintings |
| Dimension | : | W: 76.2 cm × H: 50.8 cm |
A serene watercolour painting of a majestic peacock set against a soft green landscape, beautifully capturing nature’s elegance, grace, and quiet charm through delicate colours and expressive brushwork.
Kartick Chandra Pyne | Untitled | Watercolour on Paper | 20 x 30 inches
This graceful artwork captures the timeless beauty of a peacock standing calmly amidst a lush green landscape. Painted in soft watercolour tones, the composition feels serene, poetic, and deeply connected to nature. The rich blue of the peacock contrasts beautifully with the gentle greens and yellows in the background, creating a soothing visual harmony that instantly draws the viewer in.
A striking detail of the painting is the delicate peacock feather placed beside the bird, symbolising elegance, spirituality, and natural pride. The artist uses fluid brushstrokes and translucent layers of colour to give the artwork an airy, dreamlike quality. Rather than focusing on realism alone, the painting evokes emotion and quiet admiration for nature’s beauty.
This artwork brings a sense of calmness and freshness to any space, making it ideal for living rooms, study areas, galleries, or nature-inspired interiors. Its simplicity and softness allow it to connect effortlessly with viewers while adding a touch of artistic sophistication.
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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