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Hailed as a ‘dark surrealist’ for his themes, the reticent Ganesh Pyne was a skilled draughtsman and animator, having worked at Calcutta’s Mandar Studios, the country’s first animation studio. The figuration in this Untitled study of an illustrative panel—a section of a story being serialised or a preparatory sketch for a series—reflects Pyne’s training as a draughtsman. The text in Bangla is not meant as dialogue for the figures drawn but seems to be musings by the artist as he talks about atmospherics of a statue to be placed behind ‘Trimurti’, and therefore requiring a discussion.