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Mountains 6265 Nandalal Bose Black & white watercolour on sumi paper

A. Ramachandran in the book, 'Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose' writes, "After retirement from a long service of teaching (and even though his mobility was restricted due to less than robust health), Nandalal settled down in his home studio for a retrospective examination of the images he had stored in his mind over long years. As if he were in fact writing his autobiography, Nandalal returned to the early years of his life to take stock of the scenes and images that he had collected, and he continued to spontaneously record human figures, animals, mountain ranges, hills, rivers, waterfalls, landscapes, flights of birds, trees, plants, insects, etc, on mounted handmade papers using only ink and brush. "