Cave Gate

Sailoz Mookherjea’s early impressionistic style won him the admiration of art lovers everywhere. A National Treasure artist who taught landscape painting at Delhi Polytechnic (later, College of Art, New Delhi), Mookherjea’s technique changed over the years. In this work, the artist seems to have stumbled on a site of the kind he would accompany his students to—a derelict cave shrine perched on a hillside with the horizon dipping down from the sky towards infinity.