• NGMA India

    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 89 9285 Nandalal Bose Pen & Ink on postcard

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Nandalal Bose's drawings, complete in themselves, were his vivid observations of the characteristics and attributes of subjects chosen from his immediate surroundings. In this particular postcard, Nandalal illustrates a man sitting atop a wooden purlin, occupied in making a thatched roof, supported by several sections of bamboo canes. The fluid handling of the line and its graphic quality adds vigour and life to the form of the working man. Jaya Appaswamy in her article, 'Nandalal Bose- Master Draughtsman' writes- "The drawings on postcards have a spontaneity and brevity not seen in more formal works. They exist as evidence of the artist's unceasing desire to master visual data."
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