A colourful friendship

When he returned to India in the Sixties, his colleagues were happy to see that Paris had not changed Kumar. He was still as simple and reclusive as he used to be. Only, the prices of his canvases had shot up. “His canvases were soon fetching higher prices than others like Ara. Again, this turn of events for Kumar never affected our friendship,” says Gandhy.
Auctions have now pushed the price for Kumar’s early works to a crore but the artist remains unassuming. “The auctions are part of the game, it’s not a question of being happy or unhappy about the commercial approach,” he says. Gandhy is happy that Kumar has chosen Chemould to display his solo and to dedicate the show to him, “I am indeed honoured, and it proves that our friendship has stood the test of time.”