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Paresh Hazra
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"The middle class clings to its roots and beliefs more than anyone else, it is these legends and this behaviour that I have tried to portray on canvas."
Paresh Hazra is a storyteller, except his stories are told on the canvas, and he celebrates the age-old family traditions of India, in his paintings. Hazra's paintings reflect the attributes of the old Indian artists, minute in detail and lavishly painted and textured....
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"The middle class clings to its roots and beliefs more than anyone else, it is these legends and this behaviour that I have tried to portray on canvas."
Paresh Hazra is a storyteller, except his stories are told on the canvas, and he celebrates the age-old family traditions of India, in his paintings. Hazra's paintings reflect the attributes of the old Indian artists, minute in detail and lavishly painted and textured. Striving to keep alive the myth of the great Indian family, with its close knit relationships and ethos of mutual aid, he paints what he feels with conviction.
Hazra, with a great deal of effort, produces colours and textures from natural ingredients. Using egg-tempera in preference to oils, he uses these natural pigments and dyes to achieve brilliant colour. A bit of jute or gauze is usually added to his painting to add another dimension to his work. "This technique gives an uneven look to the characters inhabiting the painting, thus producing an effect of theatricality," says Hazra. In fact, all of his creations have a theatrical quality about them. The people always look as if they have their faces to the audience even when it is not actually so. Gestures, expressions, movements, all have a disjointed appearance, making the figures resemble puppets being manipulated by an unknown hand.
Hazra has exhibited his work in group shows in Bangalore, Delhi, Calcutta, Dubai, Kathmandu, Hong Kong, New York and the U.K. He has had solo exhibitions in Mumbai, Bangalore, and Calcutta. He is a recipient of the awards of Oriental Art Society, Calcutta. His works are in the collections of the Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi and at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi. He currently lives and works in Bangalore.
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Born
1952
Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 'Indian Harvest', presented by Crimson- The Art Resouce, Bangalore at SG Private Banking, Singapore
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 'Indian Harvest', presented by Crimson- The Art Resouce, Bangalore at SG Private Banking, Singapore
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PAST StoryLTD AUCTIONS
Showing
3
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3
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Lot 48
Details
Absolute Tuesdays
27 August 2024
Untitled
Egg tempera on canvas board
21.5 x 18.5 in
Winning bid
$1,880
Rs 1,56,000
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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Lot 34
Details
Absolute Tuesdays
3 August 2021
Untitled
Egg tempera on canvas board
22.75 x 19 in
Winning bid
$696
Rs 50,790
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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Lot 33
Details
Absolute Tuesdays
20 July 2021
Untitled
Egg tempera on canvas board
23 x 19 in
Winning bid
$786
Rs 57,360
(Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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