KRISHNA REDDY | Pastoral; Untitled
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June 10, 02:40 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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KRISHNA REDDY
1925 - 2018
Pastoral
Untitled
Etching with aquatint and embossing; Etching with aquatint, embossing and hand colouring
Editioned 'Epreuve d'Essai' lower left, titled '''Pastoral' lower centre and signed and dated 'N. Krishna Reddy '59' lower right
Editioned '53/60' lower left and signed and dated 'N. Krishna Reddy '58' lower right
Image: 37.3 x 48 cm. (14 ⅝ x 18 ⅞ in.); Image: 45.4 x 33 cm. (17 ⅞ x 13 in.)
Folio: 47.1 x 61.9 cm (18 ½ x 24 ⅜ in.); Folio: 64.7 x 48.5 cm. (25 ½ x 19 in.)
Executed in 1959; Executed in 1958
(2)
Acquired from a local auction house, France, circa 2009
Pastoral - New York, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Krishna Reddy: A Retrospective, 5 November 1981 - 28 February 1982 (another from the edition)
Pastoral - Exhibition catalogue, Krishna Reddy: A Retrospective, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, 1981, illustration p. 6 (another from the edition)
"I was inspired by Beethoven’s “Pastorale” to work this plate. The power of the music exploded into an extraordinary space embedded with shapes. In the skeleton of interwoven structures, strange forms and shapes emerged which I tried to perfect by carving with scrapers and burins. The more I worked the more dynamic the landscape became." (K. Reddy quoted in Exhibition catalogue, Krishna Reddy: A Retrospective, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, 1981, pp. 67-8)