| Medium | : | Watercolour |
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| Height | : | 10.2 inch / 25.9 cm |
| Width | : | 14.1 inch / 35.8 cm |
| Dimension | : | W: 35.8 cm × H: 25.9 cm |
In this work, delicate washes of grey and muted tones form the atmospheric ground, upon which fine lines and gestural marks create an intricate network of rhythm and movement. Scattered green leaves and organic motifs punctuate the composition, offering a sense of renewal and growth amid abstraction. The floating, fragmented shapes evoke both natural elements and architectural remnants, resonating with Haloi’s lifelong engagement with the idea of loss and reconstruction after displacement.
₹400,000.00
Ganesh Haloi | Untitled | Watercolour on Paper | 10.2 x 14.1 inches | 2025
This untitled painting by Ganesh Haloi, created in 2025, is a watercolour on paper. Haloi, a celebrated modernist, is known for his lyrical abstractions that blend memory, landscape, and inner emotion. In this work, delicate washes of grey and muted tones form the atmospheric ground, upon which fine lines and gestural marks create an intricate network of rhythm and movement. Scattered green leaves and organic motifs punctuate the composition, offering a sense of renewal and growth amid abstraction. The floating, fragmented shapes evoke both natural elements and architectural remnants, resonating with Haloi’s lifelong engagement with the idea of loss and reconstruction after displacement. The interplay between fluid washes and precise line-work reveals his mastery of watercolour as a medium, where transparency and restraint carry profound depth. The painting embodies an almost meditative quality, balancing fragility with resilience, and presenting nature not as a literal depiction but as a remembered essence—an abstracted poetry of space, memory, and belonging.
Ganesh Haloi (b.1936) is a Kolkata-based artist, born in Jamalpur, Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). He moved to Calcutta in 1950 following the Partition of India. The trauma of displacement left its mark on his work as it did on some other painters of his generation. Since then his art has exhibited an innate lyricism and a sense of nostalgia for a lost world. He graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta in 1956. In the following year, he was appointed by the Archaeological Survey of India to create replicas of Ajanta murals. Seven years later, Haloi returned to Calcutta. From 1963 until his retirement, he taught at the Government College of Art and Crafts. He has been a Member of The Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta since 1971.
He has participated in several group exhibitions in India, Documenta 14 at Athens & Kassel, Greece/Germany; Architecture of Life, at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archives at BAM/PFA, Berkeley, California; 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin; A Special Arrow Was Shot in the Neck, David Roberts Art Foundation, London; and over the edge, crossing the line five artists from Bengal at KNMA, Delhi. He is represented by Akar Prakar Kolkata & New Delhi. He has had various solo exhibitions in Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Dhaka, and New York including Re-citations: rhymes, about land, water and sky six decades of painting at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata with KNMA, 2024; Re-citing Land at The Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai in collaboration with KNMA, Delhi 2022; The Architectonics of Form at Akar Prakar Kolkata and New Delhi in 2022, Form & Play at Asia Week New York in 2020 to name a few.
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| Dimensions | 38.1 × 27.94 cm |
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