
Intimate Gestures
Intimate Gestures: Indian Masters On Paper is an invitation into the quiet moment before an idea becomes a monument. But paper is not only where an idea begins. For many artists it is also where an idea chooses to stay, resolved and complete in its own right. Across ink and wash and pencil the exhibition gathers works on paper as sites of experimentation and immediacy and refinement and direct expression, whether first thought or final form.
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Intimate Gestures
Intimate Gestures: Indian Masters On Paper is an invitation into the quiet moment before an idea becomes a monument. But paper is not only where an idea begins. For many artists it is also where an idea chooses to stay, resolved and complete in its own right. Across ink and wash and pencil the exhibition gathers works on paper as sites of experimentation and immediacy and refinement and direct expression, whether first thought or final form. A line turns forceful or falls lyrical. Color whispers instead of declaring. A surface holds memory, myth, and desire. To sit with these pages is to sit with intimacy itself, the closest an artist ever comes to thinking out loud.

Madhvi Parekh
Bird on the Table, 1993
Watercolour on paper
13 x 16 in.

Ganesh Pyne
Untitled
Pen & ink on paper &
mixed media
2.75 x 2.5 in.

M. F. Husain
Untitled, 2006
Acrylic, ink and marker on handmade paper
12.5 x 18.5 in.

Anupam Sud
Dining with Ego, 1999
Etching on paper
19.5 x 39 in.

Ganesh Pyne
Untitled, 2004
Pastel on paper
17.2 x 16.2 in.

Ganesh Pyne
Untitled, 2004
Pastel on paper
17.2 x 16.2 in.

F. N. Souza
Untitled, 1957
Ink on paper
11 x 8.6 in.

Sohan Qadri
Untitled
Ink & dye on paper
27.4 x 39.4 in.

K. Laxma Goud
Untitled, 1984
Ink and watercolour on paper
12 x 9 in.

Sakti Burman
Untitled
Pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
27 x 20 in.

A. Ramachandran
Untitled, 2007
Mixed media on paper
14.5 x 10.25 in.

F.N Souza
Portrait of a man, 1956
Monotype oil on paper
26.77 x 20.47 in.

Piraji Sagara
Untitled
Watercolour and
marker on paper
11 x 19.5 in.

Madhvi Parekh
Untitled, 2002
Poster colour on paper
30 x 22.2 in.

Somnath Hore
Untitled
Colour etching on paper
12.7 x 19.2 in.




