Great eye for shapes and composition.
Oil on canvas. Painted: 1937/1938
Charpai is the bed she’s laying on. Char meaning 4 and pai meaning foot.
Thank you for posting all this South Asian art! It’s great to get some diversity.
Thank you. The visual arts are so easy to convey to new people so I love introducing people to northern Indian/ Pakistani art in particular.
Are there beds with different numbers of feet?
Also, what’s going on with the guy with the axe looming over her?
Yes we have 6 feet too. As it’s basically rope or smth tied bw the ‘frame’ it can dip in the middle, so 6 feet with 2 in the middle can make it sturdier.
I’m currently on one such bed with 4 feet while mg brother next to me is on one with 6.
That is not an axe but a ‘hand fan’. Also a woman not a man.
To be fair, I also thought that was a man with an axe.
I’m glad the question came up then lol
