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Jamini Roy
Accession No . 3107
Artist Name. Jamini Roy
Title. Vaishanavas
Medium. Watercolour on paper
Size. 37 x 28 cm
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In the first few years of the 1920s, Jamini Roy did several paintings in what he called "flat technique." He had said that like Chinese landscapes, he discarded nonessential details in the backgrounds. The subjects were mostly Santal women and he brought to the figuration a certain sensuousness. In this painting the style is similar to the "flat technique" but the subject is a Vaishnava couple. There is also a pencil sketch of a seated woman on the reverse of the painting with an inscription 'Village Woman, 1923' at the bottom right corner.
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