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 ...School of art. Ganesh Pyne lives and works out of Kolkata

"I am only whole when I am painting" eminent artist Ganesh Pyne once said borrowing a quote from dancer Nijinsky. He spoke to Mitra Banerjee from his home in Kolkatta You works seem to revolve around the theme of death. Why is it that your paintings rarely have a lighted background?

1959 Government College of Arts and Craft Kolkata Selected Solo Exhibitions 2005 Retrospective by Galerie 88 Mumbai 2000 Exhibition of Drawings on Mahabharata 1967 to 1987at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) Mumbai 1998 ‘Ganesh Pyne A Retrospective 1952-1998’ Centre

of the world and its people. Pyne who is the elder brother of renowned modernist Ganesh Pyne has held several solo shows in India and he has ... 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.

art publications including books on Rabindranath Tagore and Ganesh Pyne. The Bombay Art Society awarded him for his outstanding black and white colour

with telephones at his feet. Bakshi buttresses this with a sensitive balance of line and color which gives his work the ambience of Ganesh Pyne. But his visual treatment imagery and color sense are very different. In fact he shares a similar approach to the visual image with Pyne but expresses

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is sometimes incarnated in the form of the viewer” (Ranjit Hoskote “Reflections on the Art of Ganesh Pyne” Ganesh Pyne – A Pilgrim in the Dominion of Shadows Gallerie 88 Mumbai 2005 p. 15). In the present lot titled Godhuli the word for twilight or dusk in Bengali Ganesh Pyne depicts an old saint

Ganesh Pyne is an example of "artists who make free use of tradition by proffering mythic attributes and invented ancestral origins in their work....with a distinct look of royalty allowing Pyne to introduce an almost mythic quality to the face shrouded in mystery

AND FEATURES An enchanted space – the private world of Ganesh Pyne Ganesh Pyne can be described ... The show, titled 'An enchanted space ' the private world of Ganesh Pyne', continues at CIMA Gallery, Kolkata till the frist week of February 2006.

to the auctions, seen quite strong. We have Jogen Chowdhury, Ganesh Pyne, Bikash Bhattacharjee ' all of them have really been those artists, which have started

from an estimate of $81,400 - 93,050 (Rs35-40 lakh) to a hammer price of $307,326 (Rs1.32 crore). "The prices of mid-level artists like Ganesh Pyne and Jogen Chowdhury have been rising dramatically," Vazirani added. Art collector Harsh Goenka, who did not bid at the auction, is sceptical

Tyed Mehta, Laxma Goud, M F Husain, Akbar Padamsee, Ganesh Pyne, Krishen Khanna, S H Raza and Laxman Shreshtha, some of whom will be present

5.25 lakh. Of course, the best of Ganesh Pyne and Anjolie Ela Menon are bound to sell, though I would favour Ganesh Pyne's monkey on a leash (a metaphor

This year Debraj Goswami, Dilip Kumar Samanta, Ganesh Pyne, Kingshuk Sarkar, Lalu Prosad Shaw, Prakash Ghadge, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Rm Palaniappan,...the borderline between awakening and dreaming. His is a somnambulist’s perilous journey through the corridors of the unconscious. Ganesh Pyne draws his

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