Signed and dated 'Jogen / 2007' (upper left)
Initialed in Bengali and dated '2007' (lower left)

Further signed, titled, dated and inscribed 'Jogen Chowdhury / 'Woman (exposing her teeth)' / 2007 / Santiniketan / 35 x 50 cm. / Ink & mixed media (on the reverse)
Further inscribed with the artist's code '172/2007' (on the reverse)

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist.
Private collection, Dubai

“He is a painter of the human body but Jogen does not construct his figures like a builder with lumps of flesh or hew it out like carver all in one piece. Like women crocheting apparels, he knits them into shape squiggle by squiggle, and turns the body of interlocked squiggles into quivering, heaving, criss- crossed flesh. Doodled into existence with almost indolent casualness his bodies - soft, extensive, amorphous - are regulated by myriad inner and outer energies and evoke the asymmetrical forms and rhythms of the vegetal world we collectively call nature.” (R. Siva Kumar, ‘ Jogen Chowdhury - Lyric and Enigmatic Visions’, Retrospective: Jogen Chowdhury, Kala Bhavana, exhibition catalogue, Shantiniketan, 2013, p. 5)

Jogen’s visual language is derived from his early years in Eastern Bengal. Having travelled through the state as a young man and the impressions he gathered - the wet paddy fields, water bodies and creepers - explains his fascination for organic shapes.

His works are complex creations of highly dramatic figures, characterized by strong, plasmic and effortlessly controlled lines. Usually painted against a stark background, his characters seem like creatures of evocative detail, breathing with a life that is their own. His unique crosshatching technique only facilitates in transforming his images to theatrical figurations.