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Ganesh Pyne
(1937 - 2013)

The Teeth



Ganesh Pyne is obsessed with death. He can't forget his first brush with death, in the summer of 1946, when communal riots had rocked Kolkata. His family was forced out of their crumbling mansion. As he roamed around the city, he stumbled upon a pile of dead bodies. On the top was the body of a stark naked old woman, with wounds on her breast. No wonder then his paintings rarely has light backgrounds, and blue and black happens to be his...



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  Lot 71 of 100  

WINTER AUCTION 2010
8-9 DECEMBER 2010

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Ganesh Pyne
The Teeth

Signed and dated in Benglai (lower right)
2003
Tempera on canvas
21 x 19.5 in (53.3 x 49.5 cm)

EXHIBITED AND PUBLISHED:
An Enchanted Space: The Private World of Ganesh Pyne, Sovon Som, Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata, 2006

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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