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In his search for an artistic expression, Jamini Roy delved into his roots, often incorporating elements from traditional art forms such as Kalighat patuas, Bengali scrolls and Bankura terracotta in his works. Composed with flat, earthy colours, his works feature simple figurative forms and decisive lines, as seen in lots 1, 50 and 51. Manasij Majumdar writes that Roy "...often preferred to make images with bare minimal content and a rich... In his search for an artistic expression, Jamini Roy delved into his roots, often incorporating elements from traditional art forms such as Kalighat patuas, Bengali scrolls and Bankura terracotta in his works. Composed with flat, earthy colours, his works feature simple figurative forms and decisive lines, as seen in lots 1, 50 and 51. Manasij Majumdar writes that Roy "...often preferred to make images with bare minimal content and a rich formalist handling. Even when he treated a motif comprising two or more figures, he always eschewed all inessential representational details to move towards extreme simplification of the basic form, defined by smooth easy curved brush strokes most often in black or dark Indian red... What strikes the viewer instantly is not any theme as such but forms and figures with a striking finesse of lineal elegance." (Manasij Majumdar, "Jamini Roy: Modernism's Nationalist Face," Jamini Roy: National Art Treasure, Kolkata: Purba, 2015, p. 55)

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