Kolayi Cheerumbathur Sankara Paniker
Indian, 1911–1977
Garden, 1958
Oil on board
24 x 22 inches (61 x 55.9 cm)
Gift of Margot Lurie Zimmerman, Class of 1956, and Paul Zimmerman
2007.044.002
Kolayi Cheerumbathur Sankara Paniker
Indian, 1911–1977
Garden, 1958
Oil on board
24 x 22 inches (61 x 55.9 cm)
Gift of Margot Lurie Zimmerman, Class of 1956, and Paul Zimmerman
2007.044.002
Born in Coimbatore and educated in Kerala, K. C. S. Paniker trained at the Government School of Arts and Crafts in Madras, where he later served as Principal. He started out as a landscape painter, but in the mid-1950s turned to figure painting. In the Garden series of pictures he fully merges landscape and figure, painting boldly delineated characters with large eyes and penetrating gazes directed toward the viewer. Unified by the use of color, these...
Born in Coimbatore and educated in Kerala, K. C. S. Paniker trained at the Government School of Arts and Crafts in Madras, where he later served as Principal. He started out as a landscape painter, but in the mid-1950s turned to figure painting. In the Garden series of pictures he fully merges landscape and figure, painting boldly delineated characters with large eyes and penetrating gazes directed toward the viewer. Unified by the use of color, these figures integrate into a massive whole, forming a kind of psychological landscape.



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