Untitled

Nikhil Biswas’s brilliantly composed expressionistic drawings and paintings, often created with a flurry of strokes, are some of his finest works of the period in which this work was made. The urgent strokes and energetic swirls in bright colours of yellows, reds, and oranges, pulsate and capture, as this Untitled work reveals, the vigour and vitality of the space. Fond of capturing Calcutta’s racecourse on his canvas, he renders in this painting a pictorial narrative with a joyous mosaic of activities. Biswas used colours in a manner that exuded a feistiness on the painted surface.