This painting by Bireswar Sen depicts a mendicant Lama standing against a beautiful landscape with snow-covered mountains in cerulean blue, fluorescing beneath a bright sky. It is created by using watercolors and tempera on a card size paper. It is signed 'B. Sen' along the lower margin of the frame with a brush in white color. It is now an exhibit in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
- Identifier
- ngma-01953
- Material
- Watercolour, Tempera, Paper
- Note
- Bireswar Sen, born in 1897, Calcutta West Bengal is one of the most prominent landscape artists of Modern India. The artist was trained under the tutelage of Abanindranath Tagore in the Indian Society of Oriental Art and was greatly influenced by the techniques of Japanese art introduced by artists as Arai Kampo and Taikan. He was equally interested in English Literature hence took his formal education in the subject and taught in a college in Patna, Bihar. Bireswar sen is eminently known for his miniature sized natural landscapes imbued with the tenets of his Bengal School training in thought and application. His love for nature dominated his paintings and was further heightened upon his meeting with the legendary artist Nicholas Roerich who had epitomised the beauty of Himalayas in his canvases. Bireswar Sen also took to portraying the incomparable splendour and beauty of the changing terrains and environs of the Mighty Himalayas, but in a small scale. His works were executed mostly on paper and were the size of a small card yet never appearing cluttered. They rather echoed similar sentiments and details as encapsulated by larger canvases. His learning and deep interest in literature added lyricism and poetry in his landscapes. The colour schematisation contributes as the key component in harmonically suffusing the monumental scheme of the Himalayas in such compact space. The effortless application of colour and sweeping brush work adds to the glory and magnificence of nature. Sen's paintings arouse a sense of wonder: the 'adbhuta rasa' and leaves the viewer to marvel at nature's creation.
- Pages
- 9 X 6.5 cm
- Published in
- India
- Type
- Painting
