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1911

Kovalezhi Cheerampathoor Sankaran Paniker is born in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

1918

Gives up his college education to take up a job with the Telegraph Department, and later joins the Life Insurance Corporation of India, to support his family after the death of his father.

1923

Begins painting at the age of twelve.

1928

Now seventeen, his work features in Madras Fine Arts Society’s annual show.

1936-40

He is twenty-five when he begins his formal art education at the Government School of Arts, Madras.

It is here that Paniker begins his fluid watercolour landscapes, drawing from the Kerala environment.

1941

He is appointed a teacher in his alma-mater.

1944

Paniker establishes the Progressive Painters’ Association in Madras.

1944-53

He experiments with post-Impressionism in the manner of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.

It is during this period that biblical references to Christ and Lazarus appear in his work. In these paintings, Paniker restricts t