• NGMA India

    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 71 8844 Nandalal Bose Watercolour on postcard

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Nandalal 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. Created in 1951, this drawing represents a blacksmith seated in the backyard of his hut, bellowing into fire and castings tools and other metal implements. The watercolour drawing also demonstrates Nandalal's keen observation of his natural surroundings which aided in his constant innovation of the visual language as an artist to bring out the rhythm and coherence in his subjects rather than their imitation in formal resemblance.
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