Government Sponsored Workshop
Black and colored inks on ivory wove paper
55.9 × 76.2 cm (22 × 30 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Gopal Saha
1937
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Gopal Saha was an Indian draughtsman whose precise, ink-based drawings synthesized modernist geometry with vernacular architectural forms and textile patterns indigenous to Bengal. Working primarily in pen and ink on paper, his practice engaged with questions of cultural preservation and formal abstraction simultaneously, creating compositions that read as both technical studies and meditative exercises. His work bridged the visual traditions of pre-Partition India with a distinctly contemporary graphic sensibility.
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