K Muralidharan Indian Contemporary International Artist Original Hindu Painting

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K. Muralidharan Indian Contemporary International Artist of India Original Hindu PaintingChennai Tamil Surrealist LA Glasgow London Hong KongOil or acrylic with mixed media on canvas, 23 x 23 inches (24.25 x 24.25 x 1.25 inches framed), signed on reverse of canvas K. Muralidharan and also inscribed (see detail images). Framed in likely original and probably artist hand painted black wooden molding.Provenance: Charity fundraising estate sale near Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, 2013. Condition: In as discovered estate condition, compelling technique, execution & subject matter combination. The paint is very heavy & has sand type medium applied in close lines of horizontal impasto throughout work. This original artist technique appears to have led to development of some waves & rear crease lines in supporting canvas often seen in older paintings with heavy paint applications. This had led to a bump in the forehead & several long diagonal lines of fine craquelure across face. If you study canvases of the great bravura painters of past generations many have similar & sometimes much more pronounced paint characteristics. Ideally the canvas should be consolidated from the rear with an infusion or lining by a conservator sometime in the next generation to stabilize the paint. Additionally several edges have concentrations of tiny inconsequential read more