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Prokash Karmakar

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year

1996

size

18.0 x 21.7 in. / 45.7 x 55.1 cm.

medium

Watercolour and ink on paper, pasted on mount board

The brilliant and hard to classify Bengal modernist, Prokash Karmakar, constantly explored the inner and outwardly visible worlds of women in narratives that were often hard to decipher, but with multiple clues left in for imaginative conjectures. Though, most often, his heroine was seeking to escape masculine tyranny, in this Untitled painting, she looks leisurely in awe at a crescent-shaped object that could be anything—a broken piece of glass or, perhaps, the moon that someone’s promised to get her in a bid to romance her?

published references

Dutta, Ella, Changing Images, An Exhibition of 20th Century Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2001), p. 105
Singh, Kishore, ed., The Art of Bengal (New Delhi: DAG, 2011), p. 377
Singh, Kishore, ed., The Naked & The Nude: The Body in Modern Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2015), p. 154

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