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Ayyappa Nagubandi

Paintings

15 works, 2022 to now. Every one is an original and one of one. Sold pieces stay on this page because they are part of the record.

Acrylic painting in heavy palette-knife impasto, almost entirely grey. A man in a dark suit stands with his back to the viewer in still dark water, facing a yellow sun sitting on the horizon. A red line runs from his hand down across the water and off the bottom right corner. The sky above is built from slabs of grey and white with a few patches of yellow.

The Signal

₹67,500

Acrylic on canvas · 91 × 76 cm

Acrylic painting of a dark blue night scene. A large pale disc sits behind a gap between two brown rock cliffs, and its horizontal middle forms the only bridge across the gap, with the rest of the circle continuing below it. Four small figures, two adults and two children, stand holding hands on the bridge in front of a warm yellow glow. A lone dark figure carrying a bag walks in from the right.

The First Hire

₹67,500

Acrylic painting seen from directly above: a ground of grey stone slabs separated by heavy dark navy fissures. A broad orange path runs through it in the shape of a crossroads, turning red towards three of its four ends. A small dark figure stands at the intersection, casting a long shadow.

The Pivot

₹67,500

Acrylic painting of a figure standing on top of a tall stack of yellow, red and grey blocks, holding up a lantern in front of a glowing orange sun. Blocks are detaching from the stack and drifting left across a blue sky, growing smaller as they go. White cloud fills the upper left and dark grey smoke banks along the lower left.

The Fog of War

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Acrylic painting of a woman seated cross-legged in a green and blue sari against a flat orange ground, holding a bamboo flute across her lap. Her face and clothing are built from flat planes outlined in dark line. A green parrot perches on a branch at upper left and a small fish floats at upper right.

Radha in Wait

₹45,000

Acrylic painting of a Buddha's head and shoulders, eyes closed. The face is broken into flat patches of pink, yellow, blue, green and orange, outlined in black, with dark curled hair picked out in white. Behind it, paint in magenta, purple, orange, green and blue runs down the canvas in vertical drips.

Running Colour

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Expressionist acrylic portrait of Mahatma Gandhi from the chest up, wearing round wire glasses and smiling. The face is painted in yellow, orange and red with blue under the eyes and no naturalistic skin tone. The background is a loose field of green, blue, yellow and red vertical strokes.

Bapu

₹30,000

Acrylic painting of the Vamana avatar of Vishnu as a small brahmin figure in a yellow dhoti, one leg raised high, against a night sky of stars with a purple and magenta band. A dark red parasol sits behind his head. Below right, a crowned king kneels with folded hands beside a standing bearded figure.

Three Steps

₹30,000

Acrylic painting of a staircase built from stacked horizontal brushstrokes in reds, pinks, browns, teals and black, rising from the bottom edge to a summit near the centre. A small dark figure stands on the top step. The background is dabbed in warm orange, yellow and pink above and cool blue and purple below.

Lonely Heights

₹30,000

Acrylic painting on a flat orange ground. The head of Shiva in profile, painted blue, three white lines across the brow. His dark blue hair falls behind him and becomes a waterfall running down a snow-covered peak. A small grey figure holding a trident stands on the summit. Pale trees line the slope on both sides.

The River in His Hair

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Cubist portrait on a flat cyan ground. A woman's face broken into planes of green, pink, orange and brown, with a grey eye in the green plane and a second eye under a long dark bar. A large dark purple mass of hair sits above, navy shapes fall on both sides, and a broad yellow form runs down the centre to a red curve and grey shoulders.

Both Eyes

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Acrylic painting in oranges, reds and yellows with lime green highlights. Two dark hands, no face and no body above the wrists: an upper hand raised with thumb and forefinger closed, a lower hand open palm-up holding a blue lotus. Broad sweeping brushstrokes run through both the robe and the space around it.

The Blue Lotus

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Acrylic painting of a zebra's face cropped so close that the stripes run off all four edges. Black stripes on white, with a single amber-brown eye and dark lashes left of centre. Rust-red streaks are laid across the white in several places, and a dark muzzle with rust-coloured hairs fills the lower right corner.

Stripes

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Acrylic and gold leaf painting of a sunset over water. A gold circle sits high in a pink and purple sky, with its reflection running down the water as a jagged gold column. The water is banded in coral, pink and red, crossed by dark horizontal streaks. A dark silhouetted figure sits on the bank at right, among silhouetted grasses and leaves.

The Gold in the Water

₹30,000

Acrylic and gold leaf painting of a sunset sky in bands of red, orange and yellow-green. A large gold leaf sun sits right of centre. Seven black bird silhouettes fly towards it at different heights, two of them overlapping the gold disc and one fully inside it. A ragged dark brown treeline runs along the bottom edge.

Crossing the Sun

₹30,000