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    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 73 8888 Nandalal Bose Pen & Ink on postcard

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Nandalal is known to have fervently sketched on postcard sized papers mostly using ink and brush, recording his surroundings. His small sketches vastly vary in detailing, some drawn quickly with just a few lines, others executed with more elaborate characteristics from an analytical perspective. His search for newer forms of expression is well reflected in the multiple postcards in the collection of the museum which portray his visual experiences of mostly nature and rural life and also of his inner urge to constantly innovate. The above drawing shows a woman attending to her toilet as she holds a mirror above her head. Nandalal in his individualistic style has rendered the image with an array of unconstrained lines in calligraphic style of the Far Eastern art practices for a perceptible representation of the subject.
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