Gopal Ghose
Untitled (Pastoral Scene), 1942
Watercolor, ink and wash on paper
17.8 x 28.6 cm
7 1/8 x 11 1/4 in
7 1/8 x 11 1/4 in
Signed and dated lower right
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Gopal Ghose (1913-1980) was born in Calcutta, West Bengal. In 1943 he became one of the founders of the Calcutta Group. Initially drawn towards the Bengal School, Ghose turned to...
Gopal Ghose (1913-1980) was born in Calcutta, West Bengal. In 1943 he became one of the founders of the Calcutta Group. Initially drawn towards the Bengal School, Ghose turned to the pictorial vocabulary developed by European Expressionists and Cubists to depict nature en plein air. As such, the artist reworked the genre of landscape painting, investing it with expressionistic qualities. Abanindranath Tagore is recorded to have told the artist: ‘You have set out to see India through the eyes of an artist, I hope the world will someday see its grandeur through your works.’
(Reference: Dwijendra Moitra, Gopal Ghose, Lalit Kala Akademi, Contemporary Indian Art Series, New Delhi, 1966)
(Reference: Dwijendra Moitra, Gopal Ghose, Lalit Kala Akademi, Contemporary Indian Art Series, New Delhi, 1966)