Untitled (Two Sisters)

Untitled (Two Sisters)

Untitled (Two Sisters)

Ram Kumar

Untitled (Two Sisters)

year

1958

size

26.5 x 20.0 in. / 67.3 x 50.8 cm.

medium

Lithograph on paper

Ram Kumar was affected by the plight of the unemployed and the urban poor that he found in Paris and London, while studying there in the 1950s. Having aligned with the left intelligentsia, Kumar found himself compelled to paint their suffering. His Modigliani-esque figures were not lacking in charm or dignity—the two sisters in this work wear their suffering with stoicism in a city evident through its busy mesh in the background. His lithographs from this period are now rare to find, since Kumar returned to India to soon discard the figurative in favour of the abstract.

published references

Appasamy, Jaya, ed., Ram Kumar: Lalit Kala Series on Contemporary Indian Art (New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 1968), unpaginated
Bharadwaj, Atul, Lal, Shyam, Ram Kumar: Lalit Kala Series on Contemporary Indian Art (New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 1988)
Singh, Kishore, ed., India’s French Connection: Indian Artists in France (New Delhi: DAG, 2018), p. 134

Untitled (Two Sisters)
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