Jamini Roy (1887-1972)

Purchased by the current owner's mother directly from the artist in Calcutta in 1958

Cracks in the body of colour mainly a vertical line along the left half of the figure on extreme left and under arm of figure on extreme right. Numerous small areas of paint loss in various areas of painting. Colours brighter than catalogue illustration.
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By the early 1930s Jamini Roy had established a workshop based on artisanal principles where, with the help of studio apprentices, he produced multiple images from a series of templates.  He abandoned the use of European colors and instead worked with locally produced mineral and vegetable pigments.  Works on cloth in the "folk idiom" are thought to be prototypes painted by Roy himself, these works are far fewer in number than the works on card that were produced by his studio.  The current work is a fine example of this rare form of cloth painting.