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Paintings and Watercolors by the Indian Artist Avinash Chandra (1931-1991)TRANSCRIPT
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Avinash Chandra Catalogue
January 2015
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Avinash Chandra Catalogue
Courtesy Osborn Samuel LLP, Avinash Chandra a Retrospective, 2006
AVINASH CHANDRA
© Page Art Inc. 2015
Avinash Chandra (Simla, 1931 - London, 1981) is now recognized as one of India’s most important modern
artists. Through he had early and noted successes with his work at home, including First Prize at the First National
Art Exhibition in Delhi, and purchase of a painting by the Museum of Modern Art in Delhi (which now owns nearly 30
of his works), Chandra’s desire to explore contemporary painting led him to England.
The period 1960-1962 reveals Chandra at his most accomplished. His unique landscape and figure drawings
became fully realized original statements on eternal themes. The mountainous sub-Himalayan landscape of his
youth, which provided subject matter for his earliest works, became transformed on into cities with mythical spires
beneath multiple stars and suns, and his stark mythical figures seemed to step right out of the new post-war world
order.
During his 15 years abroad, most of which he spent in London, Chandra established an international
reputation. His successful experiments with various media and diverse subject matter were celebrated throughout
England, the Continent, and America. He had over twenty solo shows at leading galleries and obtained several
significant public commissions. Traveling on a Fairfield Fellowship, Chandra worked and exhibited in the United
States from 1967-1973, which included solo gallery shows in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
In 1963 Chandra was included in Documenta 3 in Kassel, and he saw his work begin to be acquired by
important institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum. In 1965 Chandra became the first Indian artist to have
a work acquired by the Tate Gallery.
Untitled (Black ground)
Oil on canvas; 1960
Signed and dated on back: Avinash 60
Height: 30 inches
Width: 40 inches
Little OrchardOil on canvas; 1961
Signed and dated lower left: Avinash 61
Height: 30 inches
Width: 40 inches
FiguresOil on panel (Masonite); 1961
Signed and dated on back: AVINASH 61
Height: 48 inches
Width: 24 inches
Totem PolesOil on canvas; 1962
Signed and dated lower left: Avinash 62
Height: 48 inches
Width: 36 inches
Untitled (Head with blue nose)Watercolor on laid paper with partial watermark; 1960
Signed and dated lower right: Avinash 60.
Sheet:
Height: 6 1/4 inches
Width: 7 inches
Untitled (Blue and red standing figure)Watercolor on folded card watercolor paper; 1961
Signed and dated lower left: Avinash 61, personal inscription
on interior right-hand page: Greetings from.Avinash & Prema/Dec, 61
Sheet:
Height: 9 1/4 inches
Width: 6 1/4 inch
Untitled (Brown and red standing figure)Watercolor on TH Saunders laid paper; 1962
Signed and dated lower right: Avinash 62, inscribed on verso:
No. 16 Vol 7 / Oct., 62
Sheet:
Height: 21 inches
Width: 16 1/8 inches
Untitled (Yellow head)Watercolor on T H Saunders laid paper; 1962
Signed and dated lower left: Avinash ‘62
Sheet:
Height: 21 inches
Width: 16 1/4 inche
