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This delightful Pen & Ink drawing by Jamini Roy captures a stylized male figure in bold, minimal lines. Reflecting Roy’s deep connection to folk idioms and expressive simplicity, this miniature sketch is a rare, collectible glimpse into the artist’s whimsical and modern vision.
₹75,000.00
Jamini Roy | Pen & Ink on Paper | 2.5 x 3 inches
This is a Pen & Ink drawing on paper by Jamini Roy, a charming and compact work that reflects the artist’s playful yet refined style rooted in Indian folk traditions.
The sketch features a small, stylized male figure wearing spectacles, standing in front of what appears to be a building or a stylized backdrop. Despite the miniature scale, the lines are confident and deliberate. The figure’s oversized glasses and expressive face suggest a humorous or affectionate character study—perhaps even a self-portrait or a depiction of a common man.
Roy’s genius lies in his ability to convey personality and cultural essence through economy of line. With its childlike directness and graphic clarity, this work exemplifies his lifelong effort to simplify form and elevate folk art into modern visual expression.
One of india’s most loved artists, Jamini Roy is remembered for forging a unique indian aesthetic for modern art by bringing together elements of traditional bengali folk art and kalighat patachitras, rendered in clean lines and earthy colours.
Born on 11 April 1887 in a landowning family in Bankura district of Bengal, Roy trained in European academic-realist painting at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta, and began his career painting landscapes and portraits.
Soon, moving away from these, he started experimenting with a more indigenous visual vocabulary. Level surfaces, flattening of design in depth, and the use of dissonant primary colours were aspects of folk painting that Roy incorporated in his work. Also, he took up the volumetric forms of the Kalighat patachitras. However, unlike the spontaneous brushwork of the traditional patuas, Roy’s lines were more restrained and precisely delineated.
Roy would paint several versions of a subject, breaking and reforming the theme over months. Turning his family into a production unit, he tried to emulate a craft-guild mode of artistic production. He painted on a wide range of themes—common people, mythological tales, Christian iconography, as well as visual characteristics of home-sewn Bengal quilts and Byzantine icons.
Roy was awarded the Viceroy’s gold medal in 1935, the Padma Bhushan in 1955, and elected a fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1956. Declared a National Treasure artist in 1976, his works cannot be exported. He passed away on 24 April 1972.
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| Dimensions | 6.3 × 7.6 cm |
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