An unusual painting by Sunil Madhav Sen, this Untitled work shows the artist’s willingness to experiment with styles, genres, and mediums. Painting at a time when most artists were seeking ways to represent an Indian modernism, Sen’s work is both obliquely and unambiguously Indian. He renders in this Untitled painting, a figure taken from Indian sculptural tradition but created in keeping with the strength of the artist’s linear shapes and lines. His experimentation with stone granules lends to an even more extraordinary charm in the painting.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., Manifestations VII: 75 Artists | 20th Century Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2012), p. 170 Singh, Kishore, ed., Indian Divine: Gods & Goddesses in 19th and 20th Century Modern Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2014), p. 346 Singh, Kishore, ed., Navrasa: The Nine Emotions of Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2020), p. 256
Sunil Madhav Sen
Untitled
Oil and stone granules on Masonite board
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Oil and stone granules on Masonite board
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