• NGMA India

    Nandalal Bose

    Floating the Canoe, Gopalpur 4830 Nandalal Bose Watercolour on paper

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This painting belongs to a series of monochromatic ink and watercolour paintings inspired by the Sumi-e Japanese technique the artist employed in the last phase of his life. These compositions were stripped to the bare minimum where only a few strokes of ink were employed to create natural forms in an effortless approach. In the above painting Nandalal has executed two fishermen floating the canoe. He has used similar brushwork in the rendering of the sea and the figures, thus conveying the idea of nature and humans as different expression of the same underlying unity. This painting was purchased from the collection of Shri Biswaroop Bose and Smt. Nivedita Bose, children of Nandalal Bose.
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