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Details
- Other Title
- Gopini (a female devotee of Lord Krishna)
- Place where the work was made
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Kolkata (Calcutta)
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West Bengal
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India
- Cultural origin
- Bengal School
- Period
- Modernism circa 1850 - 1945 → India
- Date
- circa 1941
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- gouache on board
- Dimensions
- 44.8 x 26.5 cm image; 49 x 30.6 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed, l.r.corner in Bengali script, red gouache "Jamini Roy". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Oscar Edwards 1958
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 9670
- Artist information
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Jamini Roy
Works in the collection
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About
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.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
A survey of Indian art (1967), Fisher Library, University of Sydney, Sydney, 06 Sep 1967–23 Sep 1967
Indian Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Apr 2001–11 Jun 2001
In one drop of water, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Jun 2019–21 Feb 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Contemporary Painting in Urban and Village India', Sydney, 2003, 54 (colour illus.).
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Haema Sivanesan, Look, 'Indian painting', pg. 20-21, Melbourne, Mar 2001, 20, 21 (colour illus.).
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Haema Sivanesan, Indian painting, 'Indian Painting', verso of poster., Sydney, 2001. cat.no. 6.3
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