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Dry Leaf
Product ID: PardeshiGopal_202505_08_001_2424
₹ 224,000
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| Size | : 24" x 24" |
| Medium | : Acrylic |
| Surface | : Canvas |
| Frame | : Included in the price |
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Drya leaf is a 24" x 24" acrylic original by artist Gopal Pardeshi, and its subject is exactly what the title names: a single dry, curled leaf, painted with the close realism of a specimen study rather than a loose botanical sketch.
A fine white thread is tied to the leaf's stem and rises out of the frame at an angle, as though the leaf has been caught and held rather than left to fall on its own. That single detail changes the meaning of the piece — this isn't a leaf simply resting in place, it's one being kept, deliberately suspended against the pull of its own decay.
Pardeshi renders the leaf's surface in careful detail, its veins, curled edges, and dry, brittle texture built up with enough precision to read as tactile. The surrounding field is a deep, saturated green, painted within a distressed wooden frame that appears built directly into the canvas rather than added afterward.
The palette pairs the leaf's warm, faded brown directly against that cool green ground, a contrast that keeps a fading, autumnal subject from disappearing into its background — the thread and the color both work to hold onto something that would otherwise be gone.
This piece shares its trompe-l'oeil framing device with Blue Kadi and Red Bell, part of a small group of object studies built around the same weathered-wood presentation, each isolating a single, specific thing worth close attention.
The square format suits a quiet corner, reading nook, or a grouping alongside the artist's other small studies, where its stillness offers a deliberate contrast to busier pieces nearby.
This is a hand-painted acrylic original on canvas, not a reproduction. Note: the title as submitted by the artist read "Drya leaf" — corrected here to "Dry Leaf" for clarity.
Drya leaf asks for the kind of attention its subject rarely gets — a single leaf, already dry, deliberately kept rather than left to fall.
Drya leaf sits alongside pieces like Red Bell in Pardeshi's Guest Artist collection, part of Pardeshi's habit of giving overlooked, everyday objects near-photographic attention. Being acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas, it doesn't need a frame to look finished, though a simple floating frame works well if you prefer a more polished presentation. Beyond the spaces already suited to it, Drya leaf also works well in a covered veranda or sit-out for a slightly different feel.
Pieces like this tend to be built in stages, and the finished surface still carries visible traces of that process rather than hiding it.
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