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178 - Sakti BURMAN (Calcutta, 1935) The Peacock Oil on canvas 81 x…
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Estimate €150,000 - €200,000
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Sakti BURMAN (Calcutta, 1935) The Peacock Oil on canvas 81 x 100 cm Signed lower left, titled and signed on the back *** Oil on canvas, signed lower left, signed and titled on the reverse, 31⅞ × 39⅜ in. Provenance : Private collection. Millon sale, 27 June 2012, no. 270. Born in Calcutta in 1935, Sakti Burman trained at the Government College of Arts and Crafts in his native city before entering the École nationale des beaux-arts in Paris, where he was awarded the Prix des Étrangers in 1956. A trip to Italy in 1958, where he came into contact with the frescoes of Giotto, Piero della Francesca and Simone Martini, had a lasting influence on his pictorial research. He returned to India at the end of his training, but chose to settle permanently in Paris in the 1960s, where his singular style blossomed. His technique is based on a marbling obtained by fusing oil and acrylic, producing surfaces that evoke the ancient plasterwork of Buddhist caves or the frescoes of Hindu temples. On these textured backgrounds, figures drawn from Indian and European mythologies, domestic scenes and dreamlike landscapes come to life, superimposing personal memory, spirituality and the Western imagination. This hybridity - between East and West, dream and reality, figuration and ornament - is the essence of a body of work that is both meditative and virtuoso in its use of colour. Burman has exhibited worldwide, notably at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the Piccadilly Gallery in London and the Galleria Nuovo Sagittario in Milan. A major touring retrospective, The Wonder of it All, was organised in 2012 by the Pundole Art Gallery and Apparao Galleries in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.
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