• NGMA India

    Jamini Roy

    Accession No . 3048 Artist Name. Jamini Roy Title. Sketches Medium. Pen and ink on paper Size. 18 x 16.5 cm

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    The sketches and drawings of Jamini Roy point to the artist’s imagination that grapples with manifest details of a visual idea for a painting. It is from the sketches and drawings that we see the artist’s diverse experiments with form. The imagery was drawn from village life. He painted from folk tales and narratives that permeated the rural consciousness. In this particular sketch, Roy has depicted different small sketches of animal and sculpture, rendered with the fluid, fine lines of pen and ink in an idiom inspired by the folk art of the Bengal region.