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Untitled

Untitled

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Artist: Chandra Bhattacharjee
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 48 × 40 inches (121.92 × 101.6 cm)
Year: 1994

This quiet dignity of daily existence is articulated through a painterly language that fuses abstraction with figuration. With a refined sensitivity to mood, texture, and social context, the artist constructs a deeply resonant image of a young boy set within a shadowed urban environment, his figure small yet commanding within the broader visual field.

Rendered in oil on canvas with expressive brushwork and a subdued tonal palette, the boy stands just to the right of a worn architectural opening, possibly a doorway or threshold, framed by the weathered textures of a rough, lived-in wall. His skin and tousled black hair identify him as a South Asian child, likely pre-adolescent, whose gaze, pensive and introspective, draws the viewer into a psychological space marked by quiet endurance.

Clothed in a simple, light-colored shirt, the child’s posture and gesture become the emotional fulcrum of the composition. He is absorbed in the act of cutting or preparing a pale green fruit, perhaps a melon or gourd, held carefully in front of him. A large, curved knife is faintly visible, signaling a moment of domestic or survival labor, and hinting at the mature responsibilities often shouldered by children in economically precarious settings. The backdrop evokes a dense urban or semi-rural settlement, articulated with textured layers of drab gray, ochre, and muted brown, creating an abstracted architectural rhythm that situates the figure within a broader socio-cultural reality. Though the forms behind him remain loosely defined, they evoke walls, alleys, and facades that feel both familiar and oppressive, spaces where lives unfold in anonymity. The diffused light, suggestive of an overcast sky or the filtered atmosphere of a narrow lane, further reinforces the painting’s subdued emotional tenor.

Bhattacharjee’s technique eschews photorealism in favor of expressive abstraction, allowing the painting’s surface to remain active and tactile. The visible brushstrokes and tonal modulations contribute to the emotional texture of the piece, suggesting that truth lies not in visual fidelity, but in the atmosphere of lived experience. With this work, Chandra Bhattacharjee invites a contemplative engagement with themes of childhood, marginality, and resilience. Untitled stands as a deeply humanistic statement, evoking empathy without sentimentality and reaffirming the artist’s place as a sensitive chronicler of the quiet, often unnoticed narratives of contemporary life.

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Art has always, naturally, reflected the development and exploration of different thoughts and perceptions, and our current postmodern era is no different. It is interesting to see how art has evolved visually, yet the traditional methods of composing art remain a valid means of expression.

All it takes for an artist to rise above normalcy, is inspiration, which fuels his passion to paint beautiful creations throughout his life.
The valuable expression of art is always there with us, but now this expression is yet to take an interesting diversion with our art gallery, Gallery Silver Scapes, located in Hauz Khas Enclave. Art is no longer considered just decorative but has evolved and come forth as a major form of investment yielding high rates of returns for its buyers, making it an expression commonly used.

Mrs Mayor was walked into the art world by the legendary modernist Bimal Das Gupta, one of whose biggest collections remains with Gallery Silver Scapes. In the 1980s, as head and first curator of the Habiart Gallery founded by Mrs Rekha Modi — a childhood friend — Mrs Mayor worked closely with and curated shows for renowned artists such as A Ramachandran, GR Santosh, Rameshwar Broota, Sakti Burman, MK Bardhan, Dhiraj Chaudhury, M Sivanesan, and Arup Das among others.

Besides modern masters, she also worked with young contemporaries such as Sudip Roy, Paresh Maity, Subroto Kundu, Vinod Sharma, and many more. Artworks commissioned by her are now part of prestigious collections, such as those of the India Habitat Centre, Ranbaxy, Pepsi, Hotel Lalit, Bank of America, and many more private and public collections.