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K. Sreenivasulu (1923 - 1995)
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Lot 28
K. Sreenivasulu (1923 - 1995)
Estimate : 4,50,000 - 5,50,000

'One of the well known exponents of the folk style among contemporary Indian artists is Srinivasulu [Sreenivasulu], a man in his early forties, art teacher in Besant High School, Adyar. His contribution to contemporary Indian art is that he has been able to impart a personal interpretation to a great tradition. An artist of pronounced talents, he has his formal academic training which initially brought him under the influence of the west. The lack of indigenous roots in his artistic expression made him dissatisfied with his work. He realized his artistic self when he had occasion to make a close study of Indian folk art as well as the Tanjore and Lepakshi Murals.'

(excerpt from Art Trends: A Contemporary Art Bulletin, Volume 1, No. 3, April 1962 written by K. M Ramachandran)

Born in 1923, he graduated in 1940 from the Government College of Arts & Craft, Madras, along with classmates K.C.S. Paniker, Paritosh Sen and S. Dhanapal. Sreenivasulu was greatly influenced by artists like Jamini Roy and combined it with his own tradition of the Lepakshi style, rooted in rural Nagalapuram in Andhra Pradesh where he spent twelve years of his childhood. The usage of tempera is typical to the training that he would have received at the time which was heavily a derivative from the Calcutta school. The artist’s process involved working directly with the paper and achieved his texture by scratching into the dried black colour wash.

Sreenivasulu’s works form an important part of the sequence of artists who went on to create the basis for a strong modern art movement in Madras. K. Sreenivasulu studied under Roy Chowdhury and alongside K. C. S. Paniker and Paritosh Sen, he had a successful career as the Principal of Department of Art at Kalakshetra and was an important artist in the 1950’s and ’60s in Madras.

Hammer Price :
4,20,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 42000.00
Total
4,62,000
The lot has ended
  • Collection: Oleographs, Lithographs, woodcut prints, etching, and screen- and offset prints Collection: Oleographs, Lithographs, woodcut prints, etching, and screen- and offset prints
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'One of the well known exponents of the folk style among contemporary Indian artists is Srinivasulu [Sreenivasulu], a man in his early forties, art teacher in Besant High School, Adyar. His contribution to contemporary Indian art is that he has been able to impart a personal interpretation to a great tradition. An artist of pronounced talents, he has his formal academic training which initially brought him under the influence of the west. The lack of indigenous roots in his artistic expression made him dissatisfied with his work. He realized his artistic self when he had occasion to make a close study of Indian folk art as well as the Tanjore and Lepakshi Murals.'

(excerpt from Art Trends: A Contemporary Art Bulletin, Volume 1, No. 3, April 1962 written by K. M Ramachandran)

Born in 1923, he graduated in 1940 from the Government College of Arts & Craft, Madras, along with classmates K.C.S. Paniker, Paritosh Sen and S. Dhanapal. Sreenivasulu was greatly influenced by artists like Jamini Roy and combined it with his own tradition of the Lepakshi style, rooted in rural Nagalapuram in Andhra Pradesh where he spent twelve years of his childhood. The usage of tempera is typical to the training that he would have received at the time which was heavily a derivative from the Calcutta school. The artist’s process involved working directly with the paper and achieved his texture by scratching into the dried black colour wash.

Sreenivasulu’s works form an important part of the sequence of artists who went on to create the basis for a strong modern art movement in Madras. K. Sreenivasulu studied under Roy Chowdhury and alongside K. C. S. Paniker and Paritosh Sen, he had a successful career as the Principal of Department of Art at Kalakshetra and was an important artist in the 1950’s and ’60s in Madras.

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