George Percival Sproule Keyt, MBE (17 April 1901 – 31 July 1993) was a Sri Lankan painter. [1] He is often considered Sri Lanka's most distinguished modern painter. [2] Keyt's dominant style is influenced by cubism.

1993年7月31日 · Often referred to as Sri Lanka’s MF Husain, George Keyt was born in Kandy, Sri Lanka to a family of Sinhalese-Dutch origin on 17 April,1902. He has been acknowledged as Sri Lanka’s most renowned and celebrated modern painter who developed an interest in art, literature and music while schooling at Trinity College.

George Keyt was a Sri Lankan artist and poet best known for his richly colored, Cubist-like figure paintings. View George Keyt’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

2024年5月27日 · George Percival Sproule Keyt (b.1901-d.1993; Sinhala: ජෝර්ජ් කිට්) was a well-known Sri Lankan painter and poet of Dutch-Ceylonese descent. George Keyt was born on 17 April 1901 in Kandy, Sri Lanka to Henry Keyt (1867-1927) who had married Evelyn Sproule (Bandara, 2018; Dalmia, 2016; Dharmasiri, 1990).

George Keyt was a Sri Lankan Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1901. Their work will be on exhibit at DAG, New Delhi on February 08, 2025. Numerous key galleries and museums such as DAG, New Delhi have featured George Keyt's work in the past.

George Keyt (1901–1993) was a Sri Lankan Artist. Born into a prosperous family, Keyt was educated at Trinity College, Kandy. He did not start painting until he was 26, but quickly went on to become an international giant of Modern art and arguably Sri Lanka’s most celebrated artist of the 20th Century.

George Keyt (1901 - 1993) Born in Sri Lanka to a family of Sinhalese-Dutch origin, George Keyt started exhibiting in the 1920s. The 1930's saw him preoccupied with the depiction of episodes from the Buddhist Jataka or Birth stories, culminating in the representation of the life and times of the Buddha on the walls of the circumambulatory shrine ...

George Keyt’s life and career spanned the artistic and political challenges of the twentieth century, and he is recognised as one of the most important Sri Lankan painters of his generation.

George Keyt didn’t start painting until he was 26, but he quickly went on to become an international giant of Modern art and arguably Sri Lanka’s most celebrated 20 th Century artist. His unique visual idiom combines European Modernist innovations with the ancient South Asian fresco techniques found at Ajanta and Sigiriya.

He was one of Sri Lanka’s greatest painters of the twentieth century with an absolute dedication to art, illuminated by his Bohemian personality who transformed himself into a legend in his own lifetime. The images of his pictorial narratives are powerful, vibrant and erotically charged.