Sea Forms

Among the first of the artists from India to head to the West on a scholarship, Krishna Reddy worked first alongside Henry Moore and Reg Butler at Slade School of Fine Arts in London, and with Ossip Zadkine at Academie Grande Chaumiere in Paris, while also enrolling with S. W. Hayter’s Atelier 17 for a course in printmaking, which became a turning point in his life. Reddy had evolved his starkly abstract geometrism at Kalakshetra, Madras, expanded and honed through experimentation in Western forms, and which became his signature style. In his printmaking, he combined abstract forms with recognisably organic representational elements resulting in animated compositions, as can be seen here in Sea Forms.