KRISHNA REDDY | Three Graces

Clars Auction Gallery, Oakland, California, 21 February 2015, lot 838

New Jersey, Rutgers, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, INDIA: Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections, 7 April - 31 July 2002  (another from the edition) 
Baroda, Faculty of Fine Arts,The Maharaja Sayajirao University, Prof. Krishna Reddy Retrospective Show, January 2014 (another from the edition)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Workshop and Legacy: Stanley William Hayter, Krishna Reddy, Zarina Hashmi, 6 October 2016 - 26 March 2017 (another from the edition)

R. Sengupta, Krishna's Cosmos : The Creativity of an Artist, Sculptor & Teacher, Grantha Corporation 2003, illustration p. 93 (another from the edition)
J. Wechsler and U. Gaur, INDIA: Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, 2002, illustration p. 98 (another from the edition)

There are minor stains and scattered spots of foxing around the white margins along with some wear to the edges and minor creases along the bottom edge. Undulation in the work is inherent to the medium. This work is in good condition, as viewed. It is in a temporary frame.
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Krishna Reddy first trained to be a mathematician and scientist. He then went on to study art at Santiniketan, which is where he learned to make black and white etchings. After a sojourn at the Slade School of Fine Arts and a foray into sculpture in Milan with Ossip Zadkine and Marino Marini, he returned to printmaking and pioneered a new printing technique. He layered color on a printing plate simultaneously, so that they could be superimposed, yet their different viscosities would naturally cause them to separate, achieving a spectacular effect and eliminating the need to apply one color to the plate at a time. Reddy has written about this work in particular, "I learned the way different tools move on the metal plate. I worked a great deal within the burin and the gouge. I became conscious of the energy of the lines. I made a series of spirals that open up and weave into three graceful shapes.” (K. Reddy, Catalogue Raisonne, Exhibition catalogue, Krishna Reddy: A Retrospective, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, 1981, p. 67) Here, subtle and beautiful lines intersect and interconnect, creating a harmonious and delicate composition that reveals Reddy's innovations with line and color.