2013.169: Untitled (Birds on a Grassy Knoll)
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2013.169
- People
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Nandalal Bose, Indian (1882 - 1966)
- Title
- Untitled (Birds on a Grassy Knoll)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1961
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India, West Bengal
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/349802
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink with pastel on Asian paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 45.7 cm (12 x 18 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: signed: upper right: black ink, Bengali: ১৩ ৫ ৬১ (13 5 61) [13 May 1961], signature of the artist
- seal: upper right: rectangular, red, intaglio seal of the artist
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Nandalal Bose, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, (-1966), by inheritance; to his son, Biswarup Bose, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India (1966-1969 to 1971), gift; to Supratik Bose, grandson of Nandalal Bose, Cambridge, MA, (between 1969 and 1971-2013), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mary K. Eliot and Supratik Bose in honor of Professor Pramod Chandra, George P. Bickford Research Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, emeritus, Harvard University
- Accession Year
- 2013
- Object Number
- 2013.169
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Two perching birds give scale and meaning to the dense and abstract mass of brush strokes beneath them, allowing it to be understood as a grassy hillock. This image was created during the last decade of Nandalal Bose’s life, when he depicted scenes from nature conjured from memory or imagination. Grass is suggested by a profusion of energetic dashes and hook-like marks, lightly touched by green pastel.
Verification Level
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