Kartick Chandra Pyne
Born in 1931 in Kolkata, Kartick Chandra Pyne studied painting at the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta, between 1950 and 1955. A prolific and taciturn artist, his work was shown as one of the hundred exhibits representing modern Indian Art in the historic exhibition at Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, in 1979. His paintings were part of the ICCR exhibition in Bangladesh in 1991-92. Since the 1960s, his work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata; Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai; Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata; Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi, among many others. A recent retrospective-scale survey exhibition of his work was organized by Emami Art, Kolkata, in 2021.
He received the prestigious Shilpi Maha Samman and Abanindra Puraskar of the Government of West Bengal. Rajya Charukala Parshad made a documentary film on him called “Line, Story, Design,” which was released in 2017.
Kartick Chandra Pyne died in Kolkata in 2017.