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Lot Essay
My paintings, drawings and the recent paper work have been directly influenced by my experience of traditional Indian dolls, paper toys, shapes galore. The experience of being with them, and the inspiration to create them, are inseparable. A painter is a child in his purity of feeling-for only then he creates with authenticity of his being.
(Artist Statement, Ajit Mookerjee, Modern Art in India, Oxford Book, Calcutta, 1956, p. 61)
Forging a pictorial language evoking contemporary India, its rhythm and energy, this painting captures the charm of the Indian countryside in its most serene and lyrical state. The high horizon slender sky-line with the little huts, the treatment of space, the form of the woman in the foreground, the simplifications and distortions derive their inspiration from both folk and miniature traditions.
(Artist Statement, Ajit Mookerjee, Modern Art in India, Oxford Book, Calcutta, 1956, p. 61)
Forging a pictorial language evoking contemporary India, its rhythm and energy, this painting captures the charm of the Indian countryside in its most serene and lyrical state. The high horizon slender sky-line with the little huts, the treatment of space, the form of the woman in the foreground, the simplifications and distortions derive their inspiration from both folk and miniature traditions.