• NGMA India

    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 62 8619 Nandalal Bose Watercolour on postcard

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Nandalal Bose preferred drawing from life, often sketching outdoors with the subject being life, nature studies, landscapes, figure drawings, animals. Often the sketches were small in scale although invigorating with the rich detailing of the artist's observations, experiences and sojourns to various places. Nandalal equally adept in the Chinese and Japanese brush techniques has in this monochromatic painting emphasised on the tonal variations of the colour for precise and recognisable rendition of a village landscape with the distinctive form of the thatched roofs of the huts, the tree and the group of village women toiling with the haystacks. The bold use of light and shade, especially the white space of the paper is suggestive of a bright sunny day.
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