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Jamini Roy
Accession No . 3094
Artist Name. Jamini Roy
Title. Gopini
Medium. Pen and ink on paper
Size. 12.5 x 20.5 cm
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It is interesting to see from the hundreds of sketches and drawings in the NGMA collection, how Roy broke down the figure to the essential form that goes into its making and then synthesised it to suggest a structure. In this particular sketch the figure is of a woman and the artist has adopted the tribhanga or the bent axis from the traditional iconography in its representation. The sketches are evidences that Jamini Roy made meticulous sketches and drawings in great detail before undertaking a painting and that he chose to narrate imagery drawn from the village life, be it the peasants, artisans, followers of religious cults, women, etc. This sketch could probably have been a prototype of the paintings titled 'Gopini' or cowherd girl that the artist has so frequently portrayed as ardent devotees of Lord Krishna.
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