These following four lots are the intensive preliminary sketches for Ganesh Pyne's structured temperas. As the tempera technique does not allow for alterations or corrections, the main forms are worked out through a series of 'jottings'. These are free expressions of the artist's ideas and clues to themes of his major works. They are in the nature of spontaneous squiggles from which emerge certain forms and patterns, which are then enlarged and developed into a complete compostion.
Ganesh Pyne (b. 1937)
Five sketches for 'Night of the Rider' and subsidary studies of the horses and lamps
Details
Ganesh Pyne (b. 1937)
Five sketches for 'Night of the Rider' and subsidary studies of the horses and lamps
dated '2.8.'97-/12.9.'95 - 28.10.'95' and inscribed 'Night of the Rider Tempera on Canvas' and 'enter the Labyrinth only to find there is no retreat?' and extensive inscriptions by the artist crossed out
pen and black ink, yellow and brown chalk, some framing lines in ball-point pen on hole-punched Academy graph paper printed in green
11 x 9 in. (28 x 22.9 cm.)
Five sketches for 'Night of the Rider' and subsidary studies of the horses and lamps
dated '2.8.'97-/12.9.'95 - 28.10.'95' and inscribed 'Night of the Rider Tempera on Canvas' and 'enter the Labyrinth only to find there is no retreat?' and extensive inscriptions by the artist crossed out
pen and black ink, yellow and brown chalk, some framing lines in ball-point pen on hole-punched Academy graph paper printed in green
11 x 9 in. (28 x 22.9 cm.)