{"product_id":"ram-kumar","title":"Ram Kumar","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Untitled' | Print on paper | 9\" x 11\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSigned | Limited edition of 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRam Kumar is one of India's most deeply contemplative modernists, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ea painter whose work moved from the human figure to the landscape without ever losing its essential subject and what it does to the people and places it inhabits. Trained in Paris under Fernand Léger, he returned to India and found in Varanasi not a sacred city but an existential one. A member of the Progressive Artists' Group, his canvases and works on paper carry the weight of a practice built over seven decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRam Kumar places the structures at the horizon, rendered in spare, precise line against a sky that presses down with the full weight of dark ink. Ram Kumar came to the cityscape after Varanasi changed him, after he understood that a city could be painted not as a place people lived but as a condition people endured. Here that understanding is distilled to its essentials: ink, paper, a skyline, and the silence that surrounds it on all sides. This limited edition print on canvas faithfully captures the quiet drama of Ram Kumar's ink work — the stark contrast of a darkened sky against spare architectural line, the vast emptiness that is never quite empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePrints are shipped unframed and rolled. \u003cbr\u003eSize is given of printed area, excluding white border.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6 class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eExclusive of GST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":"Black Cube Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45345863041071,"sku":null,"price":50000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/4022\/4303\/files\/Ram_Kumar_Limited_edition.jpg?v=1778692993","url":"https:\/\/shop-black-cube.myshopify.com\/products\/ram-kumar","provider":"Shop Black Cube","version":"1.0","type":"link"}