Combining his love for still-lifes and nudes, the latter genre putting him firmly on the art map as one of India’s foremost modernists, K. H. Ara paints here a nude female figure with a flower vase, bursting with blue blossoms—the dominant tone in the painting. Ara’s nudes, unlike those done by F. N. Souza, a fellow member of the Progressive Artists’ Group and Ara’s friend, were neither grotesque nor violent. The voluptuousness of the figure here is echoed in the shape of the vase.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., Ways of Seeing: Women Artists | Women as Muse, (New Delhi: DAG, 2021), p. 205
K. H. Ara
Nude Lady with Flower Vase
Oil and natural pigment on canvas
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