Postcards from Nandalal’s Contemporaries

This postcard flips. Image side: Landscape orientation. A dusky grey background representing a waterbody. Probably the sea or a river. There is a reflection in the middle, indicating a rising or setting sun. A cluster of black boats occupy the right hand side just above the middle, drawn with a few strokes of black ink. Writing side: On the left Abanindranath writes a note to Nandalal. On the right are postage stamps and addressee details.

Abanindranath Tagore

Postcard to Nandalal Bose, Puri

21 January 1917

Collection: DAG Museums

With astonishing minimalism, Abanindranath captures the twilight hour reflected in the a ripples of a river. He painted and wrote this postcard from ‘Alor Ghat’ [Ghat of Light] to his student and colleague, Nandalal Bose, who was at the time in Puri.

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