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Laxma Goud

b. 1940 · Nizampur, Medak (now Telangana)

Known for early drawings of rural eroticism and for the quality of his etchings and aquatints.

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Born
1940
Birthplace
Nizampur, Medak (now Telangana)
Medium
Etching, Aquatint, Pen and ink, Gouache, Pastel, Terracotta, Reverse glass painting, Bronze

Laxma Goud was born on 21 August 1940 in Nizampur, in what was then Hyderabad State and is now Telangana. He took a diploma in drawing and painting at the Government College of Art and Architecture, Hyderabad, in 1963, and later studied mural painting and printmaking at M.S. University, Baroda.

A painter, printmaker and draughtsman, he works in etching, gouache, pastel, sculpture and glass painting, and is best known for early drawings of rural life and for the quality of his etchings and aquatints. He lives and works in Hyderabad.

A life, dated

AB / TIMELINE

  1. 1940

    Born on 21 August in Nizampur, Medak district, then part of Hyderabad State.

  2. 1963

    Began studying mural painting under K. G. Subramanyan at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, until 1965.

  3. 1970

    During the 1970s he explored aquatint in his etchings.

  4. 1980

    During the 1980s he turned to terracotta and reverse glass painting.

  5. 2013

    Received the Gagan Abani Puraskar from Visva Bharati University.

  6. 2016

    Awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

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Works from the house

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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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