Ganesh Pyne's sketchbooks: Musings of an artist

In 2023, AstaGuru had auctioned contemporary artist Pyne's sketch book, with drawings he had made while travelling through Agra, Kashmir and Amritsar

Jul 21, 2025, 15:38 IST1 min

<p>In 2023, AstaGuru had auctioned Ganesh Pyne&rsquos sketch book, an important offering of personal memorabilia. Pyne, one of the most notable contemporary artists of the Bengal School of Art, had developed his own style of &lsquopoetic surrealism&rsquo. These included themes of Bengali folklore and mythology.</p>

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In 2023, AstaGuru had auctioned Ganesh Pyne&rsquos sketch book, an important offering of personal memorabilia. Pyne, one of the most notable contemporary artists of the Bengal School of Art, had developed his own style of &lsquopoetic surrealism&rsquo. These included themes of Bengali folklore and mythology.

Image by AstaGuru Auction House

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The auctioned lot included two sets of sketchbooks. These had sketches that Pyne had made while travelling through Agra, Kashmir and Amritsar, and were dated between 1958 and 1960.

Image by AstaGuru Auction House

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Pyne&rsquos artistic career spanned several decades. His abstract and surrealist paintings started with watercolours and later evolved to gouache and tempera. The sketches that were auctioned were made with ink and wash, pencil, pen and pastel on paper.

Image by AstaGuru Auction House