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Untitled (Two Serpents in a River)
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Rising above the water level in a river, two snakes face one another against a backdrop of barren hills. The meaning of this image in not clear. It was made during the last decade of Nandalal Bose’s life, when he depicted scenes from nature conjured from memory or imagination.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Nandalal Bose Santiniketan West Bengal India (-1966) by inheritance; to his son Biswarup Bose Santiniketan West Bengal India (1966-1969 to 1971) gift; to Supratik Bose grandson of Nandalal Bose Cambridge MA (between 1969 and 1971-2013) gift; to the Harvard Art Museums.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mary K. Eliot and Supratik Bose in honor of Professor Pramod Chandra George P. Bickford Research Professor of Indian and South Asian Art emeritus Harvard University
Title: Untitled (Two Serpents in a River)
Description:
Rising above the water level in a river, two snakes face one another against a backdrop of barren hills.
The meaning of this image in not clear.
It was made during the last decade of Nandalal Bose’s life, when he depicted scenes from nature conjured from memory or imagination.
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