Beacon Light of God

Bireswar Sen’s ability to paint the expanse of the Himalayas in a minuscule format was his greatest strength as an artist as well as an ode to the artist whom he admired most—Nicholas Roerich. Sen’s small watercolours were, however, rich in details. In this landscape, a man accompanied by a smaller figure walks past a rocky outcrop against a background of high mountain peaks while, in the valley below, we can glimpse glints of a river or lake with trees along the banks—something artists would find difficult to communicate even in large canvases.