Studio Table with Figure I

K.G. Subramanyan Indian

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A key figure in the development of Indian contemporary art and an influential teacher and artist in his own right, Subramanyan completed this work one year prior to receiving the Rockefeller scholarship that would bring him to New York. Here Subramanyan seems to reference but also distance himself from the modernist tradition, specifically as it is represented in European oil painting. Although he consciously evoked the genre of still life, the artist mixed vibrant and energetic human figures with more ambiguous, abstract forms arranged on a studio table.

Studio Table with Figure I, K.G. Subramanyan (Indian, Kuthuparamba 1924–2016 Vadodara), Oil on canvas laid on board

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