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Lot 24
P B Surendranath
Estimate : 2,25,000 - 2,75,000
Artist(s):
P B Surendranath (1931 - 2010)
Object Title:
Street in Kanjeepuram
Year:
C. 1950s
Medium:
Watercolour on Paper
Size :
12.4 X 9.4 in ( 31.5 X 23.88 cm )
Signature:
Signed in English as "P B Surendranath" (lower left) Inscription present on reverse (lower left): Street in Kanjeepuram P. B. Surendranath Madras - 6 Label on reverse (lower right): Rev. Paul N Rimmer M.A. (St. Nicholas Church) Marston Vicarage Oxford
Object Title :
Street in Kanjeepuram
Condition:
Good
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Lot essay

P. B Surendranath was born in 1931 attended Government College of Art and Crafts, Madras between 1949 and 1954 and studied alongside the likes of C J Anthony Das, A P Santhanaraj, L. Munuswamy under the esteemed D. P. Roy Chowdhury. Between 1954 and 1959, he worked as a freelance journalist and was invited by K C S Paniker to teach Batik at the college. He later became the principal of Government College of Arts and Craft, Kumbakonam and vice-principal of Government College of Arts and Craft, Madras between 1983 and '89. His paintings are in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi Collection and National Gallery, Madras.

(Raman, A.S., The Southern Accent, Tamil Nadu Ovia Nunkalai Kuzhu, 2000)

'The contemporary painter in India, like those in Europe and the United States, is on the constant search for new and more engaging medie for self expression. Batik work on clothes and cotton painting through ancient Asian crafts have come in handy once again as new media for picture making.[...] P. B Surendranath is one among them who has made excellent use of these techniques in his recent paintings on cloth. [...] Surendranath's recent paintings in the above media are more or less cubist-abstract. He began as a landscapist in the watercolour medium and is still known for his old techniques.'

(excerpt from Art Trends: A Contemporary Art Bulletin, Volume 3, No. 3, April 1964)

P. B Surendranath

Street in Kanjeepuram

c.1950s

Watercolour on Paper

12.4 x 9.4 in

Signed in English as "P B Surendranath" (lower left)

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