Untitled

Partha Pratim Deb’s work is characterised by contrast which plays out in this Untitled work where soft pinks and blues are offset by grey-black and solid yellow, and gently curving lines lend softness to otherwise wooden figures. The group seems to be waiting for an event in a public room. A figure on the left is engrossed in a newspaper while two others lounge abstractedly on the right. Three more participate in idle conversation. Deb lends a poetic quality to this undistinguished setting with a pink overtone, almost like an observer watching the proceedings through a window.