Jamini Roy
(India 1887–1972)
Gopini
- Other titles:
- Gopini (a female devotee of Lord Krishna)
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Adapting the traditions of local and indigenous folk and tribal painters, Roy developed a bold, graphic style which he took to its logical conclusion. Fuelled by a romantic and ultimately orientalist ideology, Roy sought to renounce his elite status as an artist, setting up a workshop where anonymous artists created works collaboratively. Works such as 'Gopini' and 'Three men in a boat' (Acc.no.20.1994) are typical of Roy's paintings, which attempt to locate a distinctive Indian modernity at the limit of the village and the urban, the tribal and the modern.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.54.
- Place of origin
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Kolkata (Calcutta),
West Bengal,
India
- Cultural origin
- Bengal School
- Period
- India: Modernism circa 1850–1945
- Year
- circa 1941
- Media
- Painting
- Medium
- gouache on board
- Dimensions
- 44.8 x 26.5cm image; 49 x 30.6cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed, l.r.corner in Bengali script, red gouache "Jamini Roy". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Oscar Edwards 1958
- Accession number
- 9670
