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Bimal Dasgupta
Untitled
year
1993 size
44.0 x 32.7 in. / 111.8 x 83.1 cm. medium
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
Bimal Dasgupta built his early reputation making landscapes in watercolour but with constant experimentation, he eventually created abstract landscapes, a genre he owned brilliantly. This Untitled landscape harmoniously merges two bookends of his career in one work—coming from the back to the front, the work begins as a landscape and seamlessly transforms into abstraction. At the far end is an aqua green sea fading into the horizon, while the beach cradles the microcosm of the land’s ecosystem encapsulated in a densely-packed amorphous form. A barren tree stands as a reminder of the damage caused by man to earth. published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., The Art of Bengal (New Delhi: DAG, 2012), p. 382
Singh, Kishore, ed., Indian Abstracts: An Absence of Form (New Delhi: DAG, 2014), p. 139
Singh, Kishore, ed., Manifestations XI | 75 Artists, 20th Century Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2014), p. 211
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