GUPTA, JAHAR DAS
UNTITLED (SANTHAL WOMAN WITH BIRD)
Year: 2007
Size: 60.8 x 76 cm (23.9 x 29.9 inches)
Signed and dated by the artistSigned and dated in Bengali (lower right)
This evocative painting of a Santhal woman blends indigenous identity with a distinctly modern visual language, creating a work that feels both timeless and contemporary expressive. The artist renders the figure in deep green tones, merging her body with the surrounding foliage, a symbolic nod to the Santhal community’s ancestral interconnectedness with nature. Her elongated features, stylised contours, and rhythmic lines recall the influence of the Bengal School and later modernists who sought to move away from academic realism toward a more lyrical, indigenous modernism.
The gentle yet alert posture of the woman, the small bird resting in her arms, and the dragonfly hovering near a blooming flower all breathe into the composition a quiet animism, echoing tribal cosmologies where humans, animals, and the forest form a continuous spiritual ecology. The work pays homage to traditional mural aesthetics and folk idioms, the controlled abstraction, expressive modelling, and atmospheric gradients mark the work as firmly modern. Together, these elements create a contemplative portrait that celebrates Santhal identity while situating it within the broader trajectory of Indian modern art’s search for rooted, culturally resonant forms.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
About Artist
Jahar Dasgupta (B. 1942)
Jahar Dasgupta is a distinguished contemporary Indian painter whose practice reflects the artistic legacy of Shantiniketan, where he trained under Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar Baij, and Binod Bihari Mukherjee. A co-founder of the influential Painters…...Read More
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