Untitled (Darjeeling by Night)

Untitled (Darjeeling by Night)

Untitled (Darjeeling by Night)

Kisory Roy

Untitled (Darjeeling by Night)

year

1947

size

18.0 x 24.0 in. / 45.7 x 61.0 cm.

medium

Oil on canvas

Kisory Roy’s style, especially in the landscape genre, serves as a testimony to the invaluable contribution of modernists at the time. Trained specifically in the landscape genre—even though he experimented in other subjects—Roy brought a sense of refinement and maturity in his landscapes. Untitled (Darjeeling by Night) features a lone figure surrounded by trees at night-time with skies softly glowing in the moonlight. The shimmering yellow lights stream in from various buildings of this hill station revealing the artist’s command on his brushstrokes.

published references

Singh, Kishore, ed., The Art of Bengal (New Delhi: DAG, 2012), p. 188
Singh, Kishore, ed., Indian Landscapes: The Changing Horizon (New Delhi: DAG, 2012), p. 406
Tillotson, Giles, New Found Lands: The Indian Landscape From Empire to Freedom (New Delhi: DAG, 2021), p. 118

Untitled (Darjeeling by Night)
Untitled (Darjeeling by Night)
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