"I dream a lot. I create figures in my dreams. " Sakti Burman's paintings evoke the look of a weathered fresco depicting figures in hues ...in his Paris atelier alone Sakti Burman is in communion with this private universe of enchanting creatures. Engaging lines of grace and beauty he creates

2004 ‘Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings’ by Sakti Burman Jayasri Burman Maya Burman Maite Delteil and Paresh Maity organized by Visual Arts ...organized by Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery Mumbai 2002 ‘Return to Eden’ Art Musings Mumbai 2001 ‘Three Burman’ Sakti Maite and Maya Art Today New

to Tango’ Gallerie Nvya New Delhi 2004 ‘With Sakti Burman Paresh Maity Jayasri Burman Maya Burman’ Gallery 27 London 2004 ‘Nature and Life’...Birla Academy of Art and Culture Kolkata 2001 La Martinique Cultural Centre of Le Lamentin 2000 With Sakti Burman and Maya Burman Art Today New

received the Prix De la Casa Velasquez in 1959. She is married to the painter Sakti Burman since 1963. Her works have a languid quality and have

"I find I must enter the fantasy world of children in order to paint." Maya Burman is the daughter of the well-known painter Sakti Burman. The striking thing about her paintings is the amount of detail in them. In formal terms Maya Burman's paintings have a tapestry like effect where

and Italy. It was Dasgupta in fact who taught Sakti Burman and who influenced his style a great deal. In the 1950s Sanat Kar also spent time

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This painting has been illustrated in M. Majumdar Sakti Burman Dreamer on the Ark Pundole Art Gallery 2001 p.157

"Sakti Burman`s spirit is one in which poetical and interior meditation harmonies of sound and his dreams and reflections mingle together and form ...of the realities." (Calvero `Sakti Burman` Sakti Burman Paris 1984) Sakti Burman`s work titled `Spring` attempts to capture the rejuvenation

and fantasies or the members of my family. Reality gets mixed up with dreams in my works.” (M. Majumdar Sakti Burman Dreamer on the Ark Pundole Art Gallery 2001 p. 130) This painting has been illustrated in M. Majumdar Sakti Burman Dreamer on the Ark Pundole Art Gallery 2001 p.111

"A Certain Moment in Time" captures a surreal snapshot of a fantasy formed of observance and the root of Sakti Burman's inspiration his memories....shapes a great deal of what he paints." (p.49 M. Majumdar Sakti Burman Dreamer on the Ark Pundole Art Gallery 2001). The childlike fantasy

"Sakti neither allegorises nor trivializes the art-and reality dualism. Here he lets no barrier come between the two the artist presides over an intriguing ambiguity… as a part of the magic reality splicing together the world within and outside his canvas in the canvas." (Manasij Mazumdar Sakti

Though individually each motif that Sakti Burman employs in his figurative canvases may seem familiar the realities that they come together to create ...experience and fantasy. As Burman`s biographer Manasij Majumder explains “Each of Sakti`s canvases looks as finished as a meticulous filigree work. He

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AND FEATURES ‘Enraptured Gaze’ by Sakti Burman Sakti Burman's paintings depict figures in hues ...the perspective and composition is often that of medieval icons. A show of recent works of by celebrated artist Sakti Burman at New Delhi based Art Alive Gallery

Figure, also priced at the same level. A small V S Gaitonde oil on canvas from the 1950s is estimated at Rs 54-68 lakh. Sakti Burman's Durga is pegged

AND FEATURES Sakti Burman, his wife Maite Delteil and daughter Maya exhibit their work together src="http:...by Sakti Burman, his daughter Maya Burman's recent works and wife Maite Delteil Burman's oils has drawn curious visitors to Art Musings in Coloba,

AND FEATURES Maya Burman’s solo show Maya Burman, the daughter of the well-known painter Sakti Burman,...and colors formed an integral part of her life as she used to see her parents painting all the time. Sakti Burman, Jayasri Burman, Maya Burman, and Maite

record price for a work on paper. World auction records were also set for the work of painters Sakti Burman and Thota Vaikuntam, and for sculptor S.

in 1963, the gallery has maintained an exclusive stable of artists that include Hussain, Sakti Burman and Akbar Padamsee....109 in. (99 X 276 cm.) Sakti

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