Graduating from Govt. College of Art & Craft, he went on to win Academy of Fine Arts Award in 1966,’69, ’73 and ’76 followed by Mahakoshal Kala Parishad Prize in ’73 and ’74. Pyne was one of the 100 artists chosen at ‘Hundred years of Asian Art’ (1861-1961), an exhibition organised by the Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan. But most of all it should also be known that he was one of the three painters who introduced surrealism in India. His works can be found at NGMA, New Delhi, Air India, Mumbai, Govt. of West Bengal Gallery, Birla Academy of Art and Culture and with several eminent private collectors in India, England, Italy, Japan, USA, Germany, UNESCO, Thailand and Singapore

Pyne is no stranger to struggle. Cousin of renowned painter Ganesh Pyne, his first watercolour sold for a paltry Rs 40 at a khola mela (open-air fair) in Kolkata in 1956. He finally found ‘fame’ only after his work Bird with Cage, painted and sold by Pyne in the 1970s for merely a couple of thousand rupees, fetched $10,200 (Rs 4.70 lakh) at a Sotheby’s auction in New York last September.

Now, the media considers him ‘arrived’. But Pyne refuses to be swept off his feet by the sudden interest from art dealers and gallery owners – he knows all too well how unpredictable life can be. And he says that he will never take it for granted again.

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