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
Prokash Karmakar
Untitled
1996
Watercolour and ink on paper, pasted on mount board
Enquiry Form
Prokash Karmakar
Untitled
1996
Watercolour and ink on paper, pasted on mount board
Image Request Form
Images from DAG’s Museum Collection are accessible to artists, educators and researchers for non-commercial, educational use. Submit your details below to request access to use this image.
