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Kumar Ram (1924-) 
Aliases: Ram Kumar
Professions: Painter
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RAM KUMAR (b. India 1924)
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Ram Kumar (b. 1924)
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RAM KUMAR (B. 1924)
Biography: Kumar Ram
(b Shimla, India 1924) Indian painter. Ram Kumar is not quite an abstractionist nor is he a pure purveyor of landscapes. After studying in Paris with Fernand Leger in 1950, his style as a figurative painter was imbued with a melancholic realism drawing upon the diverse influences of Modigliani, Kollwitz, Hopper, Courbet and the Mexican Muralists. In the 1960s, Ram Kumar abandoned figuration after a pivotal journey to Benares [in Northern India]. With a cool palette, the prime motifs within his oeuvre oscillate between his numerous visitations to this holy city and the open vistas that are in essence painterly mementos of his life's journeys. His works have stillness in common. There is a back and forth movement in Ram Kumar's work between the Benares cityscape and the mountain/desert landscapes. Though Ram Kumar lives in New Delhi where he also writes fiction, Benares as the Eternal City, has pre-occupied him for over four decades. (Credit: Christie’s, New York, Indian and Southeast Asian Art Including 20th Century Indian Paintings, September 21, 2005, Lot 317)
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