Raktim Chatterjee | Portrait of a Noble Lady

■ Curator's Note

Raktim Chatterjee's paintings examine the human condition through distorted and hybrid figures placed within ordinary domestic and social spaces. The bodies function as psychological states rather than representations — shaped by desire, fear, intimacy, consumption, and survival. Working in transparent watercolour on paper, he builds images through multiple layers and deliberate abrasion, suspending each work in the threshold between completion and collapse.

Borrowing the classical form of a noble portrait while dismantling its tradition from within. The authority and distance of the portrait genre quietly dissolves in the distortion of the body and the bleeding texture of transparent watercolour.

■ About the Artist

Raktim Chatterjee is a painter and video artist based in Hooghly, West Bengal, India. He studied at the Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata (BVA, 2004), and has exhibited continuously at major art institutions across India, including the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata and the Birla Academy of Art & Culture. In 2012, he participated in the Glenfiddich Artist Program, an international artist residency.

Working primarily in transparent watercolour on paper, Chatterjee builds images through multiple layers and deliberate abrasion — retaining rawness and instability in the finished surface. His figures, situated in ordinary domestic and social spaces, function as psychological states rather than representations, shaped by desire, fear, intimacy, consumption, and survival.

■ Condition & Specs

• Year: 2016
• Medium: Watercolour on paper
• Size: 69.3 × 99.8 cm (W×H)
• Signature: signed · one-of-a-kind
• Condition: Very Good

■ Guarantee

ART & DAY is an authorised dealer operating under a direct consignment agreement with the artist.

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