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Kartick Pyne

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Kartick Chandra Pyne was born in 1931 in Kolkata, and received his Diploma in Fine Arts from the College of Arts and Crafts in the same city.

Pyne was an artist much ahead of his time. Whilst his contemporaries were still experimenting with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles and techniques on their canvases and painted under the influence of Gauguin and Cezanne's works, Kartick Pyne was taken up by the aesthetics of the...
Read More Kartick Chandra Pyne was born in 1931 in Kolkata, and received his Diploma in Fine Arts from the College of Arts and Crafts in the same city.

Pyne was an artist much ahead of his time. Whilst his contemporaries were still experimenting with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles and techniques on their canvases and painted under the influence of Gauguin and Cezanne's works, Kartick Pyne was taken up by the aesthetics of the Post-Cubist European idiom. Artists like Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp and Joan Miro inspired him. He was one of the few Indian painters who, in breaking away from tradition, demonstrated that the Indian art scene at that time was stagnating and its products redundant.

At the time Pyne began to paint professionally, the common stress was on realism. Everyone was painting the rational and the beautiful. He tried to paint according to what was expected of an artist then for some time, but the pioneer in him made Pyne begin to introduce irrational elements in his work and start to express his feelings on canvas without any inhibitions. Kartick Pyne did not allow himself to be limited by only painting what was real, and therefore acceptable. In this artist`s work we see the use of inscrutable and complicated metaphors, that only he can explain, and what critics called "free form images." Pyne was concerned with the spiritual, and in his trademark canvases we see an almost automatic outpouring of all that he is feeling. He chose his colours not on the basis of their visual appeal, but by what they meant to him. The random and surreal elements in his works are all rooted in his own perception of the world and its people.

Pyne, who was the elder brother of renowned modernist Ganesh Pyne, held several solo shows in India and participated in several exhibitions internationally, including 100 Years of Modern Indian Art held in the Fukuoka Museum, Japan in 1979 and the exhibition of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in Bangladesh, held in 1992.

Honours and Awards

1980-86 Scholarship from Indian Cultural Trust, Kolkata

1968-69 Scholarship from Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

1966, 69, 73, 76 Academy of Fine Arts Award, Kolkata

1973,74 Mahakoshal Kala Parishad Prize

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PAST AUCTIONS

Showing 4 of 5 works

Lot 23 Details

99 Modern Paperworks 20-21 July 2011

Kartick Pyne

Untitled

Watercolour and ink on paper

12 x 14.5 in

Winning bid
$2,473
Rs 1,08,790
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Lot 87 Details

99 Modern Paperworks 20-21 July 2011

Kartick Pyne

Untitled

Watercolour on paper pasted on board

20.5 x 15.5 in

Winning bid
$1,495
Rs 65,780
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Lot 90 Details

Auction 2004 (December) 30 Nov-2 Dec 2004

Kartick Pyne

Untitled

Oil on canvas

37 x 44 in

Winning bid
$3,279
Rs 1,47,544
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Lot 94 Details

Auction 2002 (December) 1-4 December 2002

Kartick Pyne

Untitled

Mixed media on paper

12 x 15 in

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Lot 23 Details

Absolute Tuesdays 16 April 2024

Kartick Pyne

Untitled

Oil on canvas

38 x 43.75 in

Winning bid
$1,610
Rs 1,32,000
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)

Lot 47 Details

Absolute Tuesdays 19 December 2023

Kartick Pyne

Untitled

Watercolour and pastel on rice paper pasted on mount board

28 x 18 in

Winning bid
$318
Rs 26,400
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)

Absolute Tuesdays 17 October 2023

Kartick Pyne

Untitled

Oil on canvas

20 x 24 in

Winning bid
$878
Rs 72,000
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)

Lot 45 Details

Absolute Tuesdays 12 July 2022

Kartick Pyne

Untitled

Watercolour, felt tip pen and pen and ink on paper

18.5 x 23.5 in

Winning bid
$1,154
Rs 90,000
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EXHIBITIONS

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Lot 381 Details

Works on paper. 20 Feb-15 Mar 2003

Kartick Pyne

Untitled

Watercolour and ink on rice paper

19 x 12.25 in

Lot 382 Details

Works on paper. 20 Feb-15 Mar 2003

Kartick Pyne

Untitled

Watercolour on paper

20 x 14.5 in

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