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Thota Vaikuntam

b. 1942, Boorugupalli, Telangana

Thota Vaikuntam, Telangana lady, 2004: a seated woman with an olive-green face, red bindi, stacked gold bangles and a black sari dotted with white, on a cream ground.

Thota Vaikuntam, born 1942 in Boorugupalli, Telangana, has spent his career painting the men and women of rural Telangana in flat saturated colour with heavy contour drawing. His figures, with their kohl lined eyes, red bindis and ornamented hair, are among the most immediately recognisable images in contemporary Indian painting.

He studied at the College of Fine Arts and Architecture in Hyderabad and at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, where K. G. Subramanyan was an influence. He is renowned above all for his portrayal of Telangana women, and has received the Bharat Bhavan Biennale Award, the National Award and the State Award.

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Thota Vaikuntam, Telangana lady, 2004: a seated woman with an olive-green face, red bindi, stacked gold bangles and a black sari dotted with white, on a cream ground.

Thota Vaikuntam (b. 1942)

Telangana lady, 2004

Acrylic on canvas board

16 x 20 inches (about 41 x 51 cm)

Price₹10,00,000

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Who is Thota Vaikuntam?

Thota Vaikuntam, born 1942 in Boorugupalli, Telangana, has spent his career painting the men and women of rural Telangana in flat saturated colour with heavy contour drawing. His figures, with their kohl lined eyes, red bindis and ornamented hair, are among the most immediately recognisable images in contemporary Indian painting. He studied at the College of Fine Arts and Architecture in Hyderabad and at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, where K. G. Subramanyan was an influence. He is renowned above all for his portrayal of Telangana women, and has received the Bharat Bhavan Biennale Award, the National Award and the State Award.

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A square painting: a large vermilion half face in profile with a green eye, ringed by seated green and yellow deities, with a winged cow leaping over a brown and green chequerboard.

Devotional & narrative

Vermilion face with Kamadhenu

Ramesh Gorjala. A large vermilion half face in profile, with a single green eye, anchors this square canvas.

A square Kalamkari style painting: a saffron yellow face in profile with a gold nose ring, a crimson lotus panel at the right, and Maa Lakshmi Ji seated on a lotus inside the contour within a patterned sari border.

Devotional & narrative

Lakshmi on the lotus, saffron profile

Ramesh Gorjala. A saffron face in profile, a gold ring at the nostril, sets the key of the canvas.

Chandra Morkonda, The golden tree and the white bull: a tall painting of a great tree with blue-and-gold leaves rising from a golden trunk and tangled roots, with a white lotus bank at the left, a white bull at the right and a crescent moon on a vermilion ground.

Landscape, nature & trees

The golden tree and the white bull

Chandra Morkonda. A great tree stands against a vermilion ground, its leaves shaped in blue and veined in gold, each a small tree in itself, set over a field of ringed and patterned colour.

Prakash Bal Joshi, Vermilion rising through ultramarine, 2024: a square abstract in ultramarine, violet and teal, with a vermilion form rising through the centre.

Abstract

Vermilion rising through ultramarine

Prakash Bal Joshi. A square field worked in ultramarine, violet and teal, with a vermilion form rising through the centre and two dark verticals standing before it.

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