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Krishen Khanna
Pieta


- - “Another subject from the Christ cycle that Khanna returns to is of the Pieta or the Mater Dolorosa, as she holds the exhausted Christ on his descent from the cross. He returns to it over the decades with different stylistic variations. The Pieta paintings relate to his concern with the subject of the dead and the dying, as much as with the persecuted figure of the Christ. Khanna uses the essential composition of the seated Mother Mary cradling h
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KRISHEN KHANNA: A RETROSPECTIVE

ARTWORK DETAILS

  • Krishen Khanna
  • Pieta
  • 2004
  • Oil  on  canvas
  • 42 x 30 in (106.7 x 76.2 cm)
  • From a Private Collection
  • EXHIBITED AND PUBLISHED:
    Public Airing: Works on Canvas, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2004

    PUBLISHED:
    The Embrace of Love, Gayatri Sinha, Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, 2005
  • Category: Painting
    Style: Figurative



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