Select Works From The Roohi & Rajiv Savara Family Collection: Pre-Modern And The Modern Indian Visual Arts

GAGANENDRANATH TAGORE (1867-1938)

“Pratiksha: A Wayside Digression” | Pen and Black Ink and Watercolor, Heightened with Wash, on Paper | 38 cms x 28 cms (actual measurement without mount 40 cms x 29.5 cms) | 1917
Signed and dated in English ‘GT, June 1917’ in the Upper Left Corner and titled in Bengali in the Upper Centre

Publication History:

  • Illustrated in Adbhut Lok or The Realm of the Absurd, a portfolio of 16 Lithographs, 1917.
  • Illustrated in “Gaganendranath’s Realm of the Absurd”, Roopa Lekha, Vol. XXXVIII Nos. 1 & 2, pages 168-181 published by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society – New Delhi, page 173
  • Illustrated in Purabi: A Miscellany in Memory of Rabindranath Tagore 1941-1991, edited by Krishna Dutta & Andrew Robinson, published by The Tagore Centre UK, London, England, 1991, page 207
  • Illustrated in The Art of Bengal, by Kishore Singh, published by Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012, page 112