A Village near Mahableshwar in the Monsoon

This charming watercolour comes from that time of K. K. Hebbar’s career when he had retreated with his family to the hill station of Mahabaleshwar in the Western Ghats, to think over the direction he would want to give to his career; he had just returned after spending some years studying and exhibiting in Paris and London. This was the time when landscapes took precedence in his artistic output. This aqueous work is luminescent with the washed quality of clear air which is a rarity and possible only during the monsoon in this country.