This landscape painting is of a wooded hill in Simla and consists of tall deodar trees in autumnal colours towering over a set of buildings. The impasto brushstrokes implicate Avinash Chandra’s deliberate highlighting of colours and shadows, the foreground lit by slanting sunlight to pick out the russets and golds, the reds, yellows, and greens. Blending extraordinary colours in an expressionistic language, Chandra’s early works display the masterful brushstrokes of the artist. In London, he would shed this style of landscape painting altogether.
published references
Singh, Kishore, Humanscapes: Avinash Chandra, A Retrospective (New Delhi: DAG, 2015), pp. 16, 66-67, 68 Singh, Kishore, ed., Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 136 Singh, Kishore, ed., Memory & Identity: Indian Artists Abroad (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 244 Singh, Kishore, ed., Avinash Chandra | Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2019), p. 24 Tillotson, Giles, New Found Lands: The Indian Landscape From Empire to Freedom (New Delhi: DAG, 2021), pp. 106, 151
Avinash Chandra
Untitled (Houses in the Forest)
1956
Oil on canvas
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Avinash Chandra
Untitled (Houses in the Forest)
1956
Oil on canvas
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