Poet, novelist, musician and playwright, the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore took to painting and drawing only in his sixties. His paintings, with their intense, semi-expressionist faces of men and women inhabiting a twilight world and a nebulous dreamscape, conveyed a deep, brooding interiority. His work reflected the influence of artists like Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Gerhard Marx, George Muche, Nicholas Roerich and other Bauhaus artists, as well as the impact of Freudian psychoanalysis. Tagore’s first exhibitions were in Paris, where he found some success. It was while doodling on his manuscript pages that Tagore made some of his earliest forays into graphic art. This work features a doodle that was created in place of the earlier crossed-out mistakes and corrections of a Bengali text, and has been turned into a suggestive human form with his wilful, curving lines.
Rabindranath Tagore
Untitled (Namaz)
c. 1930s
Woodcut on newsprint paper
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Rabindranath Tagore
Untitled (Namaz)
c. 1930s
Woodcut on newsprint paper
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