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In early 1953, Krishen Khanna moved to Madras with his wife and daughter. "It was to be a period of personal contentment and greater lyricism than Krishen had ever expressed before in painting. The reasons for this were rooted in the city of Madras and in Krishen's own temperament. Working in Grindlay's in Madras has an even, calm rhythm, matched by the slow social tempo of the city…Apart from a series of paintings on musicians, Krishen also did... In early 1953, Krishen Khanna moved to Madras with his wife and daughter. "It was to be a period of personal contentment and greater lyricism than Krishen had ever expressed before in painting. The reasons for this were rooted in the city of Madras and in Krishen's own temperament. Working in Grindlay's in Madras has an even, calm rhythm, matched by the slow social tempo of the city…Apart from a series of paintings on musicians, Krishen also did a number of figurative works with women as the subject. With their rich skin tones and sensuous forms, they comprise the only body of female nude figures in Krishen's oeuvre...Krishen reacted to the colours of Madras, the strong nearly white light, the dark brown-bodied figures, especially of migrant labour that was pouring into the city, the frequent sight of hawkers selling fruit. The young girl, her body baked brown in the sun, bearing an erotically suggestive fruit basket, the nude with vivid flowers in her hair were all frequent preoccupations" (Gayatri Sinha, Krishen Khanna - A Critical Biography, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2001, p. 48).

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