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Nandalal Bose

A Sketch from Album No. 72 8877 Nandalal Bose Pen & Ink on postcard

Nandalal's exploration of the different ways of delineating a line allowed him to experiment in representation of lines in its varying forms adding rhythm, vigour and life to the form of the figures. In this drawing of a village woman carrying a set of earthen pots on her head the artist has astutely executed the spatial treatment of the woman within the backdrop of a flight of steps and the use of linear accents in her drapery. Dinkar Kowshik in his article, 'Drawings and Sketches of Nandalal Bose', writes- "Nandalal's sketches in fact provide a moving record of a humble life and natural environment in which he lived. These are not in any way preliminary studies for his larger finished compositions in black and white or in colour. They are finished and self-contained in themselves like a Japanese 'Haiku'.