The Gate

Calcutta artist Ganesh Pyne is known for his meticulous draughtsmanship and delicate handling of pigment. Influenced by the brothers Abanindranath and Gaganendranath Tagore, Pyne's work fuses French Modernism favored by the Tagores and the whimsicality of cartoons, as he spent a portion of the 1960s sketching animated films. Pyne began using tempera as his primary medium in the mid-1960s and his longstanding experiments with indigenous powder pigments and various binding agents have allowed him to develop a unique way of building up surface and texture on canvas. Pyne notes that he was influenced by Paul Klee, Rembrandt van Rijn and Frans Hals. His works convey an architectonic structure while his treatment of light and shadow pays homage to the Dutch masters.