ca. 1920 - ca. 1925

Painting, watercolour on postcard, Gaganendranath experiments with cubism, loosely applying some of its formal principles to depict a street scene. He has applied a selection of bright colours in a rough manner. The artist experiments with prisms, cubes and refracted planes of light and colour to evoke a fantastic world of abstract and cubist compositions. The image is painted on a postcard which was sent by the artist to Roop Krishna Esq. The message on the reverse reads: 'My dear Roop, many thanks for your kind greetings for the new year...I am practising Cubism and this is the result. Yours affl. G.Tagore.' Postmark dated 17 April (year is not readable).