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Artist: Sanjay Bhattacharya
Medium: Watercolor & Ink on Paper
Size: 30 × 22 inches (76.2 × 55.88 cm)
Year: 2009
This striking portrait-style artwork captures a moment of poised emotion and symbolic interaction between figure and nature. A dark-skinned woman is centrally positioned with arms outstretched, reaching towards a small, yellow butterfly that delicately hovers near her face. The composition is minimal yet emotionally charged, built around a carefully chosen palette of black, brown, and vibrant yellow, all set against a stark white background.
The woman’s body is rendered in rich, earthy hues of deep brown and black, with strong yet graceful limbs raised in a gesture of longing or connection. Her curly, flowing hair adds a sense of softness and motion, contrasting with the graphic clarity of the scene. The gesture of reaching is gentle, open, and aspirational, suggesting a symbolic moment of hope, desire, or freedom. The presence of the yellow butterfly acts as both a visual and metaphorical counterpoint. With its bright, spotted form, it introduces fragility and lightness into the composition. As a symbol, the butterfly may represent transformation, fleeting beauty, or a spiritual presence, elements that imbue the work with quiet depth and introspection.
Scattered throughout the painting are simple, stylized yellow flowers, each rendered flatly in bright pigment, forming a delicate visual rhythm across the otherwise high-contrast image. These floral motifs anchor the composition and extend the emotional resonance of the butterfly, enriching the piece with themes of life, growth, and the natural world. The white background allows for the central figure and yellow elements to breathe, enhancing the sense of spatial clarity and making each visual component more impactful. The black frame adds refinement and containment, drawing the viewer’s attention inward toward the emotion and movement of the scene.
Subtle details, including the artist’s signature and date in the lower left, signal the personal nature of the work, while the overall execution, likely in mixed media, hints at textured surfaces and painterly layering that are best appreciated in person. With this work, Sachin Kumar continues his exploration of identity, emotion, and symbolic storytelling. Through a limited color palette and a powerful gesture, he captures a universal yet intimate moment, one that feels timeless, personal, and poetically open to interpretation.
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Mrs Mayor was walked into the art world by the legendary modernist Bimal Das Gupta, one of whose biggest collections remains with Gallery Silver Scapes. In the 1980s, as head and first curator of the Habiart Gallery founded by Mrs Rekha Modi — a childhood friend — Mrs Mayor worked closely with and curated shows for renowned artists such as A Ramachandran, GR Santosh, Rameshwar Broota, Sakti Burman, MK Bardhan, Dhiraj Chaudhury, M Sivanesan, and Arup Das among others.
Besides modern masters, she also worked with young contemporaries such as Sudip Roy, Paresh Maity, Subroto Kundu, Vinod Sharma, and many more. Artworks commissioned by her are now part of prestigious collections, such as those of the India Habitat Centre, Ranbaxy, Pepsi, Hotel Lalit, Bank of America, and many more private and public collections.