Studio Table with Figure I

K.G. Subramanyan

1965 · Oil on canvas laid on board · Modern and Contemporary Art

A key figure in the development of Indian contemporary art and an influential teacher and artist in his own right, Subramanyan completed this work one year prior to receiving the Rockefeller scholarship that would bring him to New York. Here Subramanyan seems to reference but also distance himself from the modernist tradition, specifically as it is represented in European oil painting. Although he consciously evoked the genre of still life, the artist mixed vibrant and energetic human figures with more ambiguous, abstract forms arranged on a studio table.

Artist

K.G. Subramanyan

Date

1965

Medium

Oil on canvas laid on board

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2017