Sakti Burman

Sakti Burman catalogue raissonne, France, 1984, illustrated.

Manasij Majumder, Sakti Burman Dreamer on the Ark, Pundole Gallery Bombay, 2001, illustrated p.62.

Canvas slightly loose on lower edge, minor area of flaking behind the hedgehog, otherwise in very good condition overall, as viewed.
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Sakti Burman has been called an 'alchemist of dreams' and it is clear that through his canvases the viewer unwittingly enters a world of fantasy, for his paintings seem to occupy a world of their own, suspended between the spheres of myth and reality. His works are frequently autobiographical yet the manner of their presentation projects them into a fantastical kaleidoscopic world of the artist's imagination.

'Sakti Burman's spirit is one in which poetical and interior meditation harmonies of sounds and his dream and reflections mingle together and form an image full of colour, fantasy, designs, variety, fragments of stories at the same time, an invitation to silent, discreet and joyous contemplation of the realities.' (I Pel. Luc Calvero, Sakti Burman, Paris 1984).

This work has been chosen by the artist to be produced as a limited edition lithograph.