Krishen Khanna Indian, b. 1925
Krishen Khanna is one of India's most enduring modernists, a painter of deep moral seriousness whose figurative work has always held the human condition at its centre. A member of the Progressive Artists' Group, he spent decades rendering India's working men, its grief, its faith, with a painterly intensity that sets him apart.
"O.K. Tata" the signage of the Indian road, barely legible through layers of dust, gives the painting its name and its irony. The banal everyday image at the edge of chaos, and the man trapped within it becomes something larger, an emblem of migration, of labour, of India's long and conflicted negotiation with urbanism and the relentless appetite of the modern. This print faithfully captures the richness of Khanna's painterly surface and the intensity of his palette, making this iconic imagery a work to be lived with every day.
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Size is given of printed area, excluding white border.