CHOUDHURY, D. P. ROY
UNTITLED
Signed in Center Left CornerImage size: 38 x 29 cm (14.9 x 11.4 inches)
Mount size: 49.5 x 40 cm (19.4 x 15.7 inches)
Frame size: 59.5 x 50 cm (23.4 x 19.6 inches)
The Bengal modernism is full of images that represents Santhali men and women. Even this is one of the work where artist has celebrating natural beauty and considered a Santhali woman as his muse.
The painting depicts a woman plucking flowers from a flower tree and collecting in her small basket. She is adorned with lavish pearl jewelries and tradition red bordered white colour Bengali saree without blouse.
Curves of her upper body is quite visible through the folds of her saree to celebrate feminine beauty. In the Triumph of Modernism, Parta Mitter writes, To the Bengali elite the sexualized image of the Santhal women became inextricably linked with the myth of their innocent vitality, serving as a foil to the trope that blamed the loss of the Bengali vigour and colonial domination.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
About Artist
Devi Prasad Roy Choudhury (-)
Devi Prasad Roy Choudhury was one of the most renowned artists and art administrators of the twentieth century. He got his art knowledge from an Italian painter, Voiess, during the initial years of his career and later he became a disciple of Abanindranath…...Read More
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