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Taki
Product ID: GhadgeUmesh_202505_10_014_1410
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| Size | : 14" x 10" |
| Medium | : Pen and Ink |
| Surface | : Paper |
| Frame | : Included in the price |
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Taki is a 14" x 10" pen and ink original by artist Umesh Ghadge. A raised water tank — a taki, the everyday word for such a village cistern — stands on its tall wooden frame at the center of the composition, surrounded by trees, a small temple spire, and low houses with tiled roofs.
Ghadge gives this ordinary piece of rural infrastructure the same careful architectural attention he applies to Mumbai's grandest landmarks elsewhere in his collection, the tank's wooden supports and raised structure rendered with real material specificity rather than treated as background.
The open field in the foreground is worked in dense, low horizontal stippling, giving the ground real texture and weight beneath the more vertically oriented tank, trees, and buildings above it.
A distant temple spire, just visible past the tank's structure, is rendered more lightly than the closer elements, a controlled use of density to suggest depth across the flat rural landscape.
This willingness to find a worthwhile subject in unglamorous rural infrastructure, rather than only in temples or colonial architecture, connects Taki to Clean Up Mumbai and Destruction elsewhere in Ghadge's collection.
The compact scale suits a study, hallway, or a grouping with the artist's other landscape and infrastructure studies, where the shared observational eye ties the works together.
This is a hand-drawn pen and ink original on paper, not a reproduction. The stippled field texture is built up in dense, low strokes, part of Ghadge's consistent technique.
Taki treats a village water tank as a genuine architectural subject, worth the same patient attention as any temple or terminus.
Taki sits alongside pieces like Still Life in Ghadge's Guest Artist collection, built from the same fine, individually placed linework Ghadge uses across this series. Being a linework piece on paper, a plain, narrow frame under glass tends to suit it best, keeping the focus on the drawing itself. Beyond the spaces already suited to it, Taki also works well in a covered veranda or sit-out for a slightly different feel.
Works like this one are built up gradually in layers, with the final surface holding the marks of that process rather than smoothing them away. Natural, indirect light tends to bring out the surface texture best; direct sun for long periods should be avoided so the colour stays true over time. As a handmade original, small variations in texture and brushwork are part of the piece rather than a flaw, and are consistent with how Ghadge works across this collection.
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