Reflection

The collection of NGMA has close to 390 artworks of Mukul Dey which include drawings, sketches and prints acquired by the museum from the artist's family and from other private art collections. The artist's works include portraits and drawings of the renowned personalities of the time from diverse fields of politics, literature, science, education and also of the leading entrepreneurs, acquaintances, family members and friends. Apart from the portraits the collection also has paintings executed in the Bengal School style portraying landscapes especially of the Bengal countryside, the native people in all their glory, the flora and fauna, the saints and Bauls preaching wisdom through the villages, the monuments and also those narrating the religious fables, the folk tales and customs of the land. The above print shows a woman standing at a window and looking at her reflection in a hand mirror, her back facing the viewer. The artist has used little details like the jewellery and flowers on the woman's hair to further accentuate the feeling of sensuousness in the composition. The inscription mentions, Has a handwritten numerical inscription which reads '47-110/2175' at the bottom right corner of the print with pencil.