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Figurative, Ink on Paper by Modern Indian Artist Sunil Das "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Untitled - 13.5 x 9 inches (unframed size)
Ink on paper
It will be delivered without Frame
Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist from Bengal. Extreme...
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1960s Modern Kolkata - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Untitled, Design, Ink on Paper by Modern Artist Jogen Chowdhury "In Stock
By Jogen Chowdhury
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury - Untitled - 12 x 16 inches (unframed size)
Ink on Paper, 2022
Signed in Bengali
Style : He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. Jogen Chowdhury had developed his individual style after his return from Paris. His most famous paintings are in ink, watercolor and pastel. He has painted in oil medium as well.
In Chowdhury’s more recent works the sensory experiences of cloth, bolsters, sofas and the human body are cross-projected to produce an uncanny world of tran-substantiated tumescence and flaccidness.
Jogen Chowdhury has been widely acknowledged to be, the master of the unbroken line. Like Léger, Chowdhury has been stirred by the linear Kalighat pat tradition, but his lines are emotive and used to express and suggest the character of a person. This is done by, distorting the form without breaking the line and in the world of young, contemporary art; distortion has been Jogen Chowdhury’s most significant impact. Perhaps, because of this, a common observation of his work is that his “people” are caricatures. The person feels familiar to the viewer but it is far more individualised – the face is imaginary but the psyche or characteristics are real. The power and beauty of his technique and line is this play between the known and unknown. In Jogen Chowdhury’s work, the figure is always in the foreground, it is primary, it conveys everything. He uses colour to give volume to his figures and the fluidity of his lines bring a sensual aspect to his forms.
About the Artist and his work :
Born : Born 1939 in Daharpara Village, Faridpur, Bangladesh. Jogen Chowdhury is an eminent Indian painter and considered an important painter of 21st century India.
Family Background :
His father Pramatnath Chowdhury was a Brahmin zamindar. Both his parents took interest in art, Jogen Chowdhury’s father Pramatnath Chowdhury painted several mythological scenes from the village theatres and also sculpted various Hindu icons. Whereas his mother was an expert in Alpana drawings.
1939-47 Jogen Chowdhury lived in a village atmosphere. And after partition in 1948, the whole family shifted. Till 1951 the whole family stayed at the police department quarter of his uncle, where on the walls Jogen Chowdhury painted his first painting, 1962 Jogen Chowdhury was employed as Designer in the Handloom Board.
Education :
1955-60: Studied at the Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata.
1965 : He went to paris to study in Ecole des Beaux Arts, in William Hayter’s Atelier 17.
Professional Experience :
1968-72 : He worked as an Art-Designer, Madras Handloom Board, Madras.
1970 : A collection of his poems were published, titled ‘Hridoy Train Beje Othey’.
1987 : Joined Kala Bhavan , Santiniketan as a professor of painting.
Selected Exhibitions :
1972, 1975 & 1978 respectively : I, III, IV Triennales at New Delhi.
1979: The Sao Paolo Biennale.
1980: The exhibitions at the Fukuoka Museum, Japan.
1982: The Royal Academy, London.
1982: The Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
1986: The II Havana Biennale.
1989: ‘Festival of India’, in Geneva.
2002: Saffron...
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2010s Modern Kolkata - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Reclining Woman, Watercolor, Brown by Indian Padma Bhushan Awardee "In Stock"
By Somnath Hore
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Somnath Hore - Reclining Woman - 8.5 x 12 inches ( unframed size)
Watercolour on paper
Inclusive of shipment mounted not framed, Should you wish to receive the same framed and shipp...
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Style : Ram Kumar, like many of his confreres among the first generation of post-colonial Indian artists - including such figures as F N Souza, M F Husain, Paritosh Sen, Jehangir Sabavala, Krishen Khanna, S H Raza and Akbar Padamsee - combined an internationalist desire with the need to belong emphatically to their homeland. In its internationalist mood, this generation looked to the early 20th-century modernisms of Paris, London and Vienna for inspiration; its need to belong prompted an interest in the construction of a viable ‘Indian’ aesthetic that bore a dynamic relationship to an Indian identity. With Ram Kumar, this quest for an indigenist tenor has not meant a superficial inventory of ‘native’ motifs offered as evidence of a static and essentialist Indian identity. Instead, as I have already suggested, he demonstrates that a painter can enact the innermost dramas of his culture while maintaining the individuality, even idiosyncrasy of his performance.
Ram Kumar’s art, which has proceeded through an alternation of joyous expressivity and brooding reticence, plays out a crucial polarity of emphasis in the context of Indic culture: that between samsara, the sensual participation in the world of events, and nirvana, the ascetic blowing-out of desire. Having renounced the active engagement with the state and civil society that had earlier characterised his position, the artist has turned gradually inward, choosing to be an internal exile of the spirit. This withdrawal affords him the space in which to reflect upon the great natural forces that have enthralled him since his childhood, to gauge their metaphorical import: in their workings, he senses the deeper intrigue of time as kala, the destroyer of worlds. Attentive to the ceremonials of decay, alert to the processes of transformation, he stands on that threshold where the anguish of the private self is sublimated into the universal rhythm of creation and destruction.
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About the Artist & his works :
Born : 1924, Simla, Himachal Pradesh.
Ram Kumar (1924 - 2018) was among India’s leading modernists.
Education :
1949-52 : Studied Painting under Andre Lhote and Fernard Leger, Paris.
1946 : M. A. in Economics from the St. Stephens College, Delhi University, New Delhi.
1945 : Sharada Ukil School of Art, New Delhi.
Exhibitions :
Selected Solo Exhibitions :
2016 : 'Ram Kumar: Traversing the Landscapes of the Mind', Saffronart, New Delhi
2014 : 'Ramkumar Drawings from the 60's', Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata, New Delhi
2013 : 'Ram Kumar and the Bombay Progressives: The Form and the Figure Part I', Aicon Gallery, New York
2012 : 'Drawings', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 : 'Ram Kumar: A Retrospective', Aicon Gallery, London
2010-11 : 'Selected Works: 1949 -2010', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi; Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 : 'Ram Kumar: A Retrospective', Aicon Gallery, New York
2009 : Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 : ‘Homage to Kekoo Gandhy’, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai & Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2007 : ‘Reflective Landscapes’, Aicon Gallery, New York
2006 : Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 : Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai & Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003 : Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2002 : Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, New Delhi, San Fransico, New York
2001 : Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2000 : Landscapes from New Zealand, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
1999 : Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1998 : A Gallery, New York
1997 : Arks Gallery, London & Amdavad Ni Gufa, Ahmedabad
1996 : ‘Pages From a Sketch Book’, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai & ‘Ram Kumar – A Journey Within’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
1988 : Works on Paper, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
1986 : Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1983 : Works on Paper, Miskole, Hungary & Sarla Art Centre, Chennai
1981 Works on Paper, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1977,79 : Chanakya Gallery, New Delhi
1971,73,76 & 78 : Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1966 : Grosvenor Gallery, London & Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
1960 : Wax and Ink on paper after first visit to Benaras, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
1958 : Warsaw and Krakow
1957 : Alliance Francaise, New Delhi
1953 : Alliance Francaise, Mumbai
1949 : Y.M.C.A. Hall, Simla.
Selected Group Exhibitions :
2014 : 'Immutable Gaze Part I: Masterpieces of Modern and Pre-Modern Indian Art', Aicon Gallery, New York
2013 : 'Pioneers of Modernism', Sovereign FZE, Dubai ; 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi & 'Nothing is Absolute: A Journey through Abstraction', The Jehangir Nicholson Gallery at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai.
2012 : 'Iconic Processions', Aicon Gallery, New York ; 'Through the Ages: South Asian Sculpture and Painting from Antiquity to Modernism', Aicon Gallery, New York ; 'Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art', prsented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai & 'Sightings', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai.
2011-12 : 'Reprise 2011', Aicon Gallery, New York
2011 : 'Modern Masters', Aicon Gallery, New York ; 'POP: Progressives on Paper', Aicon Gallery, New York & 'Masterclass', Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi.
2010 : 'The Progressives & Associates', Grosvenor Gallery, London ; 'From Miniature to Modern: Traditions in Transition', Rob Dean Art, London in association with Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2009 : 'Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin', Emily Lowe Gallery, Hempstead ; 'Progressive to Altermodern: 62 Years of Indian Modern Art', Grosvenor Gallery, London & 'Moderns and More', Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto.
2008 : 'Post Independence Masters', Aicon Gallery, New York & ‘Freedom 2008 – Sixty Years of Indian Independence’, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata.
2006 : ‘Moderns Revisited’, Grosvenor Vadehra, London & ‘Shadow Lines’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2005 : Ashta Nayak: Eight Pioneers of Indian Art', Aicon Gallery, New York
2001 : ‘Modern Indian Art’, organized by Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York & ‘Ashta Nayak’, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai.
1997 : ‘Image-Beyond Image’, a Traveling Exhibition of Works from the Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan, at New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Mumbai
1996 : ‘The Moderns’, National Gallery Of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
1991 : ‘Remembering Kali Pundole’, Joint Exhibition with M. F. Husain, V. S. Gaitonde, Akbar Padamsee and Krishen Khanna, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1988 : ‘Three Indian Artists’, Karachi, Pakistan
1971 : Ten Indian Artists, a traveling exhibition in U. S. A.
1958 : Eight Indian Artists, Graham Gallery, New York ; Seven Indian Painters in Europe, Gallery One, London & Graphic exhibition with M. F. Husain, Tyeb Mehta and V. S. Gaitonde, Mumbai
1952 : Delhi Shilpi Chakra, New Delhi.
Retrospective Exhibitions :
1994 : National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Jehangir Art Gallery (Traveling Exhibition), organized by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
1993 : From 1949-93 at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
1986 : From 1953-86 at Art Heritage, New Delhi organized by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai & Museum of Contemporary Art, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal.
1985 : Art Heritage, New Delhi
1980 : From 1953-80, Birla Museum, Kolkata.
Selected Joint Exhibitions :
2012 : 'Eternal Landscapes', with Paresh Maity presented by ICIA at The Arts Trust, Mumbai
1995 : With Jogen Chowdhury, Gallery Raku, Japan <
1967 : With M. F. Husain, Geeta Gallery, New Delhi & With M. F. Husain, Prague.
Participations :
2015 : 'Abby Grey and Indian Modernism: Selections from the NYU Art Collection', Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York.
2014 : 'Ode to Monumental: Celebration, Visuality, Ideology', presented by Saffronart at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2012-13 : 'Radical Terrain: Modernist Art from India...
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