With Love N. I.

Manjit Bawa worked as a silkscreen printer in England from 1964 to 1971 while studying art there. On his return to India, he experimented with printmaking while pondering over what direction his practice would take. Not wishing to pursue European style of art making, he turned to the sacred and the mythological and created a distinctive vocabulary using flat tones of deep colours and bulbous forms of figures detached from gravity. The shape of his art to come is quite visible in this print’s flat background and the protuberant limb emerging from a piece of garment.