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This early work by Jogen Chowdhury is from the time when he had just completed his graduation from the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta. An academic nude study, it shows his skill in sketching fluid lines that he would perfect to evolve a highly individual figurative vocabulary, centred on the line. His concern, however, has always remained the situation that the figures find themselves in. As he has said: ‘I have, at times, painted portraits of women where you may fleetingly glimpse a romantic expression. But more important to me is their vital, physical expression.’