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Trained by Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of the revivalist art movement referred to as the Bengal School, Nandalal Bose not only became his star pupil but often surpassed his master in his use of the Japanese wash technique. Bose’s brilliance as a Bengal School proponent—a style that he would eventually discard in favour of an individual language—is evident in this Untitled woodblock work, printed by experts of the Japanese art magazine Kokka. Executed in the Ajanta lexicon, this dreamy imagery is a throwback to a hoary story from some mythological past.