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Jamini Roy
Accession No . 3140
Artist Name. Jamini Roy
Title. Christ and a Boy
Medium. Tempera on cloth
Size. 49 x 100 cm
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The series of images depicting the life of Jesus Christ is perhaps one of the boldest experiments in figuration and narrativisation by Jamini Roy. The language of the Christ paintings is remarkable for their grave, contemplative faces in somewhat hieratic poses with iconicity. In this particular painting the figure of Christ and a young boy stand solemnly with frontal gaze and the hands of the child folded together. Jamini Roy narrated episodes from Christian mythology in a way that could communicate itself easily to the ordinary Bengali villager.
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