Grey Sky

This profound painting in deep colours is simultaneously an abstraction, a landscape and an experience. Silhouettes of solid mass—trees bent with the weight of rain and the force of wind—mushroom forth from a relatively flat plain. Clouds appear in the middle of the canvas and a dark, brooding sky occupies most of the compositional space. The night sky and the lights glowing on the trees highlight the infinite expanse of nature. This canvas was painted at a time when Amitava’s work was influenced by existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre and inventive thinker-writers such as Albert Camus.