Untitled

Though Lalu Prasad Shaw trained in painting from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta, he was a founder member of the Society of Contemporary Artists in 1960 that gave a fillip to printmaking activity in the city. Individually as a printmaker, Shaw developed a highly abstract vocabulary in the tradition of American abstract expressionists as evident in this Untitled work. Featuring geometrical shapes concealed one inside the other, the work speaks a spiritual language, alluding to the way nature protects its elements encased one inside—or dependent on—the other.