Untitled

Trained as a painter and sculptor, Gopal Ghose—a founding member of the Calcutta Group—explored multiple visual vocabularies for representing nature. He was particularly drawn to the modernist languages of Expressionism and Cubism and used them to play with forms and colours in his nature paintings. He travelled extensively within India to paint and concentrated almost exclusively on depicting flora and landscapes. In this rural scene, we see the contour of a woman carrying a basket on her head and walking towards a hut across the fence. Yellow and green engulf the two distinct structures—the woman and the house, painted in shades of red and black.