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UNTITLED (FISH) | 30 x 40 in (76.2 x 101.6 cm) | Oil on canvas, 1990 | PRESENTED LOT

Born in Karnataka in 1911, K K Hebbar belongs
to a rare league of artists whose works
defied categorization and re- defined the
course of modernism in India. He moved to
Mumbai from Karnataka and pursued his
formal art training from the Sir J J School of
Art, where he spent five years as a teacher
and mentor from 1940-1945, and later
moved to Academy Julien in Paris.

Influenced by the works of artist Amrita
Sher-Gil, K K Hebbar aimed to explore
Indian themes with western technique.
This became the foundation of his art
practice, which, despite being a synthesis
of impressionistic and expressionistic
GOA techniques, remained rooted in the ethos
36.2 x 30 in (92 x 76 cm) of Indian culture. His work gradually evolved
Oil on canvas,1990 towards abstraction with a mastery over
Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan line drawing. The artist passed away in 1996.