Untitled

The portrait of a cocky, young lass is atypical of someone who devoted his career to painting the dark experiences of his growing-up years, such as the Bengal famine, the partition of India and other socio-political upheavals in the eastern state. In the colour palette as well, the work is a departure from the major body of Ganesh Pyne’s oeuvre. What brought the artist to make a picture of this girl wearing a smirk on her face? Perhaps, her cheeky attractiveness... Looking askance, she cold-shoulders the onlooker, who she knows is enchanted by her physical allure.