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lot 28

lot 28

A. Ramachandran

Untitled

oil on canvas
18 x 18 in. (45.7 x 45.7 cm.)
painted in 2005

Winning Bid: $ 9,500

Estimate: US$ 10,000 - 15,000

Lot Closed

Lot Details

Signed and dated 'Ramachandran 2005' (lower right)
Further signed, dated and inscribed 'Ramachandran / 2006 / Studies from Rajasthan' (on the reverse)

PROVENANCE
The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
Private collection, Dubai

Painter, sculptor, designer, and educator, A. Ramachandran's art is uniquely Indian in essence as well as contemporary. He has explored diverse mediums and scales with a dynamic personal vision and distinctive artistic style.

Over the years, his paintings have acquired a classical monumentality and his use of medium and colors a luminosity. As an artist, he is not content to merely represent the world of natural phenomena as perceived by the human eye. He transposes the visible reality into tropes expressing a personal philosophy, an idealized vision of the world.­­

A. Ramachandran

(1935 - 2024)
Born in Kochi, Kerala, A. Ramachandran graduated with a Degree in Malayalam Literature from Kerala University before going on to study art at Viswa Bharati University at Santiniketan. His most recent shows include ‘Dhyanachitra’ and ‘Bahurupi’ at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 2012 and 2009 respectively; and those held by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, at Jehangir Art Gallery, in 2008; Grosvenor Vadehra Gallery, London in 2008; the Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai and New York, 2007-08; Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2006, 2005, and 2001; Nami Island, South Korea, 2005; Art Heritage, New Delhi, 2002; and Sridharani Gallery, New Delhi 1998. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including those hosted by Saffronart, Hong Kong and Los Angeles, 2001; the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1982; the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1982; and the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1977. He was honored with a Padma Bhushan from the Government of India, in 2005, and has also received the Nama Conquers Award in 1980 and 1978, for the children’s books he wrote and illustrated. Ramachandran passed away on February 2024.