Still Life (Pineapple)

Still Life (Pineapple)

Still Life (Pineapple)

P. T. Reddy

Still Life (Pineapple)

year

1956

size

25.0 x 29.7 in. / 63.5 x 75.4 cm.

medium

Oil on cardboard

During the 1950s, P. T. Reddy made several still-lifes arranged sometimes in a formal Mughal style, or with bowls of fruit in the European format, as seen in this painting. He used colour in all its intoxicating complexity and paints here a still-life with all the tropes of the genre—fruit platters, a vase with a floral arrangement, other empty plates, and tabletops— and makes it a painting that is emblematic of his dogged determination to not only master the genre but also have an intense engagement with colour.

published references

Singh, Kishore, ed., Home is a Place / Interiority in Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2021), p. 95

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