click image for large view | | Title: | "Horse Sketch #3" | | Item Id: | 377 | | Medium: | chalk on paper, matted | | Size (in): | 8 H X 10 W |
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click image for large view | | Title: | Atma I | | Item Id: | 594 | | Medium: | concrete (over steel armature) | | Size (in): | 36 H X 15 W | | Price($): | 9500 |
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click image for large view | | Title: | Atma II | | Item Id: | 597 | | Medium: | concrete (over steel armature) | | Size (in): | 73 H X 18 W | | Price($): | 14850 |
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click image for large view | | Title: | "Forbidden Fruit VI" | | Item Id: | 458 | | Medium: | Cast bronze, hand enameled | | Size (in): | 14 H X 12 W |
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click image for large view | | Title: | Macchiato | | Item Id: | 412 | | Medium: | sculpture, bronze on marble | | Size (in): | 12 H X 4 W |
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click image for large view | | Title: | "Flute I" | | Item Id: | 431 | | Medium: | Bronze sculpture, patina finish | | Size (in): | 10 H X 6 W |
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click image for large view | | Title: | "Music to Her Ear" | | Item Id: | 432 | | Medium: | Bronze sculpture, patina finish | | Size (in): | 8 H X 5 W |
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click image for large view | | Title: | "Music Duo" | | Item Id: | 433 | | Medium: | Bronze sculpture, patina finish | | Size (in): | 10 H X 12 W | | Status: | Available as pair |
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Sukhdev Dail
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Born in the foothills of Himalayas, into a four generation doctors? family, Sukhdev grew happily, kicking footballs, observing deer frolicking and fish racing in once clear streams, shaping clay animals on its banks, walking miles to school, accompanied by his faithful dog, which always waited faithfully for his return. The earliest classroom was under the bunion tree, with lessons written on a small stone board and the first pictures drawn in sand.
The family was a well to do one, where three generations lived in a near-palatial abode, protected with a wall and large double doors, locked at every sunset, where dogs guarded the compound walking the edges of the flat roof and upper decks, peacocks visited every evening and gathered their harem on a nearby tree, parrots painted the sky with green and red lines, as the enormous sun ball lowered itself silently behind the horizon. Life was good.
However, in spite of all that, it was time to move on.
Sukhdev had to attend the art college in another city. There his paintings blossomed with his very own vision, and his sculpting muse was rewarded with larger than life size ?Archer?, inspired by the memory of king Arjuna, and installed in the center of the college grounds. Upon finishing his higher education at the New Delhi College of Art, he was offered a job of the professor, which he held for a couple of years.
But that canvas was also proving too small for Sukhdev; so he left for Europe and continued his education at the Academie Royale Des Beux-Arts In Bruxelles, the city, which saw his first large one man show, inaugurated by the Indian Ambassadress Mme. Lall. The top Belgium artists, G.de Vlamynck and Armand Massonet visited the exhibit and their critique was very favorable. Sukhdev was pleased, especially when told that his art was ?avant-garde? enough to be shown in the best galleries of Germany and England, as well as Paris. He was offered an extended collaboration with the art collectors Christa and Gerhard Heuschen.
Ever searching for yet another, larger canvas, Sukhdev decided to try Canada and the United States. Upon the recommendation from his wife Marija, Bill Hanna invited Sukhdev, to join the Hanna-Barbera?s Hollywood studio. That started him on a totally new road of artistic endeavor, which was pleasing enough, but removed him further from his first love ? the serious fine painting and sculpture.
The growth in the animation industry was crowned by the position of an art director in own studio, as well as animation director in studios like Hanna-Barbera, Warner Brothers, and Universal.
The little spare time left was filled with artistic attempts and some exhibits, like one man show at the?Ankrum Gallery?, a show in the ?Swan Gallery? of Toluca Lake, inaugurated by Tippi Hedren, then the group shows in Long Beach, Santa Ana and Laguna Beach Museum, and Los Angeles, where the painting ?Fast lane? was chosen for the city collection and awarded Sukhdev the purchase prize.
The invitation came from Dr.M.S. Randhawa, the president of "All India Fine Arts Society?, to have his one man show in the Chandigarh Art Museum, followed a year later with another one man show in New Delhi, inaugurated by India?s president?s wife, Begum Abida.
Sukhdev?s vision didn?t rest. Never fully satisfied with any finished piece, he dreamed of reaching further, higher, deeper, into any dimension that was as yet undiscovered. His thirst was unquenched.
Years passed, the muses were restless; the time came to fulfill the dream of the long ago youth.
The present days are filled with activity, the canvases are covered with sunsets of unseen suns and the dust of stampeding horses, that sometimes find themselves mingling with cumulus clouds, canvases stamped with beautiful bodies of girls laid out on the sand dunes. Planets made of flowers, barely recognizable worlds in the ethereal air of Sukhdev?s imagination, fed by the generations of inspired art.
The frenzy of artistic activity presents itself on three continents: a large, hill-top studio in Europe, where Sukhdev enjoys the many arts the Old Continent offers, the home studio in India, where larger than life sculptures became landmarks of the town, and finally, the serene studio in Carmel Valley, where he spends most of his time.
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