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Jamini Roy
Accession No . 71
Artist Name. Jamini Roy
Title. Mother and Child
Medium. Oil on Canvas
Size. 20" x 47.75"
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Probably, it was 1919 or 1920 that Jamini Roy moved away gradually from European naturalism in search of his own idiom. The first suite of paintings that emerged from these early experiments focused primarily on Santal women. In these paintings, he started by discarding the nonessential elements in the landscape keeping only a branch here or a bit of water there. The colour palette was confined to a limited range and was applied as a flat tone. The Mother and Child image is one of the favourite themes of Roy and here he evokes the mother's protective tenderness towards her young son with great sensitivity. The clear-cut angular lines with which the figure is rendered indicates the increased stylisation that Roy was to adopt in the coming years. This painting won the top prize in the 1935 All Indian Academy of Fine Arts exhibition.
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