PAINTER

Sunil Das

"Das's paintings not only express the physical attributes of his subjects but also their associative ones."

One of India's important post-modernist painters, Sunil Das rose to prominence with his drawing of bulls & horses between 1950 to 62 when he went to Spain and got fascinated by the bull fights. Das came from a middle class family. A French art scholarship with the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts took him to Europe. Das' paintings have also been influenced by his study of sculpture at Santiniketan, Kolkata, and his study of graphic art in Paris. Das's paintings not only express the physical attributes of his subjects but also their associative ones. Every once in a while he paints human beings, but his depiction of the human anatomy is skewed, to a point that it almost borders on macabre surrealism. For example, his series on women with mysterious, tantalising eyes - all oil on canvas, the portraits convey, in various forms including the erotic, the pressures women are subject to.

Artist Biodata

Sunil Das has the distinction of being the only Indian artist to have won a National Award (the Shiromani Kala Puraskar) while still an undergraduate at the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata. Besides having been featured in several exhibitions, his works are also a part of the collections of renowned museums such as the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, the Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan, and the Ludwig Museum, Germany.

Artworks

Introspection, 1987

Mixed Media on Magazine Paper

ID: SDAS223

150000

Introspection, 1987

Mixed Media on Magazine Paper

ID: SDAS222

150000

Untitled, 1988

Oil on Canvas

ID: SDAS01

800000

Introspection, 1987

Mixed Media on Magazine Paper

ID: SDAS224

150000

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