Indian painter, mid-to-late 20th century, oils, acrylics, and works on paper

A. Ramachandran

A. Ramachandran (born 1935) is an Indian painter and muralist associated with the post-Independence Delhi art scene. He works in oils and watercolour, drawing on Indian classical sources, mythology, and the natural world.

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Many objects in private hands were never properly assessed — because no one with the right knowledge looked at them. That has changed. Open research archives, digitised auction catalogues, and image analysis now make it possible to understand a work in new ways and with a depth of information that simply did not exist before. A work rarely stands alone. And it carries its history within it — if you know how to read it.

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