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Nandalal Bose

A Sketch from Album No. 72 8878 Nandalal Bose Pencil on postcard

Nandalal Bose's sketches were often small in scale although invigorating with the rich detailing of the artist's observations, experiences and sojourns to various places. The above drawing shows a small portrait of a man in pencil. Dinkar Kowshik in his article, 'Drawings and Sketches of Nandalal Bose', writes- "Nandalal's drawings are vast in number and varied in technical interest. He was indefatigable in his search for form and to the end of his life he remained a student. Whatever he saw, and wherever he went he recorded the flora and fauna, the people of the place, their dress, their carriages, the head-dresses, the landscape, the festivals, the architecture, and while doing that he went on attaining a felicity of expression."