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Krishen Khanna
Girl on a Swing

- - In Krishen Khanna’s oeuvre there is, “from the 1960’s onwards, the girl or young woman, in a series of ‘natural’ gestures, so often repeated to suggest a preoccupation beyond from into the formal. Krishen in this period painted women in many ways: Woman on a Swing, Woman Seated, Pulling a Veil across the Body, Woman Combing her Hair, etc, subjects familiar from the Indian nayika bhed tradition but essentially modernist in their treatment. Even in

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