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Lot No. 76
T VAIKUNTAM
b. 1942

UNTITLED
Diameter: 47 in (119.3 cm)
Acrylic on canvas
Signed: Verso

` 25,00,000 - 30,00,000 | $ 30,488 - 36,585

Provenance: Property from a collection based in Hyderabad.

Thota Vaikuntam’s inspiration for
painting can be traced back to his village.
Deities, as well as the men and women
of his village are often the central
characters of his work. Unlike most of his
contemporaries, Thota Vaikuntam uses
only primary colours, he says, ‘’I like using
rich primary colours, which give a sense
of character and depth to my paintings.
Like reds and even orange, because
these are essentially Indian colours. I
don’t like using colours that are a mix
of two, because they are not natural,
they don’t exist in the surroundings
around us, in our everyday life.’’
Hailing from Andhra Pradesh (now
Telangana) in South India, Thota
Vaikuntam was born in 1942. He studied at
the College of Fine Arts and Architecture,
Hyderabad, in 1970, and continued his
academic training at the Faculty of Fine
Arts at M S University, Baroda, in 1972.