Young Woman in Dressing Room

early 1940s

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Srimati’s engagement with themes that explored daily rural life in India was shared by a number of other painters of her day, most notably N. S. Bendre, Amrita Sher-Gil, and Yagnesh Shukla. Together they sought to identify subjects that belonged to India—and thus distance themselves from dependency on British art-school models—in the pursuit of an Indian modernism. This work, an early study by Srimati of youthful beauty in the simple interior of a village home, skillfully evokes a rural idyll.

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Title: Young Woman in Dressing Room
Artist: Y. G. Srimati (Indian, 1926–2007)
Date: early 1940s
Culture: India (Chennai)
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: Image: 10 1/4 × 13 1/4 in. (26 × 33.7 cm)
Mat: 16 × 22 in. (40.6 × 55.9 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Lent by Michael Pellettieri
Curatorial Department: Asian Art