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Jamini Roy
Accession No . 3149
Artist Name. Jamini Roy
Title. Flight to Egypt
Medium. Tempera on cloth
Size. 118 x 53 cm
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The series of images depicting the life of Jesus Christ is one of the most inventive styles in Jamini Roy's oeuvre. He brings to these divine figures both a sense of sacredness as well as a sense of intimacy. This painting narrates the scene from the biblical gospels of the Flight Into Egypt with the figure of Mary, the mother seated with infant Christ on her lap and the mule being led by Joseph. The 'Flight Into Egypt' paintings of the Christ series particularly has a touch of the familiar world with close resemblances of an ordinary family with a new born infant fleeing to safety. The picture space is also livened up with the border comprising of geometric patterns along the margin of the painting and the hint of landscape in the form of stylised trees on either ends of the paintings.
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