Untitled (Birds on a Grassy Knoll)

Artists

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.

Dimensions

30.5 x 45.7 cm (12 x 18 in.)

Provenance

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.