A woman is perhaps spending her leisure time, contemplating and looking away from the viewer. She is bejeweled and elegantly dressed; the composition is brightly colored, with a clear influence...
A woman is perhaps spending her leisure time, contemplating and looking away from the viewer. She is bejeweled and elegantly dressed; the composition is brightly colored, with a clear influence of Kalighat pat tradition. Lalu Prasad Shaw draws his inspiration from nature and the great Bengali middle class. His brooding characters—for instance, here the woman—seem frozen into a kind of quiescent gesture, formal and speechless but still very expressive.