Vijay
Achrekar
विजय अचरेकर
“Every canvas should carry the living breath of its subject.”
- Mumbai · b.1967
- Alla prima, from life
- L.S. Raheja 1988 · Gold Medal
- President, Art Society of India
- 17 works catalogued
02 — The Hand
Trained the classical way
He has painted from life since 1988, and has never stopped.
Born in Mumbai in 1967, Vijay Achrekar took his Diploma in Drawing and Painting at the L.S. Raheja School of Art in 1988, graduating as a Gold Medallist. He works alla prima — wet into wet, most of a picture resolved in a single sitting, the stroke left standing where it fell.
The method is conventional and the touch is not. Surfaces are smooth and quietly realistic, built from confident, economical brushwork; alongside them he paints striking abstractions. He is known for holding a relaxed, graceful posture with precision even inside a dynamic mark.
- L.S. Raheja School of Art
- 1988, Gold Medal
- Art Society of India
- President
- Studio
- Mumbai, with Sujata Achrekar
- Medium
- Oil on canvas and board
“Every canvas should carry the living breath of its subject, where observation meets the discipline of the hand.”
Vijay Achrekar
03 — The Hang
Seventeen works
Oil on canvas and board. Each is an original, signed, sold once. Prices are stated.
Showing 17 / 17
Wet into wet. One sitting. No going back.
The picture is finished before the paint sets.
The palette
05 — Commissions
Painted for you, from life
Individual portraits, family groups, memorial works and devotional canvases. From life in the Mumbai studio where possible; from guided reference where distance requires it.
- Head study, 12 × 16 in
- On request
- Portrait from life, 24 × 30 in
- ₹3,00,000
- Portrait from life, 30 × 36 in
- ₹3,00,000 – ₹5,00,000
- Devotional / large format
- Quoted separately
¹ Sittings from life in the Mumbai studio, ordinarily three to five of two hours.
² Eight to twelve weeks from the first sitting. Travel outside Mumbai by arrangement.
³ Above: plate 17, Vishwaroop Darshan.
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