Signed and dated 'Jogen 2011' (upper left)
Dated in Bengali (lower left)
Initialed in Bengali (upper right)
Further signed, titled, dated and inscribed 'Jogen Chowdhury' / 'Face' / 25 x 32.5 cm. / Ink & Pastel / 2011 (Santiniketan) / Code No: 29/2011 (on the reverse)

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

"It was in Santiniketan, where I have been since the 1990, that I again started drawing in every possible medium. I have been through several phases working with pastels, ink, ink and brush, including drawings painted with dry pastels or oil pastels. My recent drawings represent nature and human beings - flowers, vases, trees, mountains, clouds, men and women and their relationship. They depict an intimate sensibility rooted in my feelings and imagination. They are done in a personal ways, and I feel they contain an original approach and creativity in their form, lines and images. It is important to do something with conviction. For me, all objects are basically same in spirit and element. This is an 'Upanisadic' or Tagorean concept, which has influenced my thinking from my early youth. This is also scientifically true. I do not see any difference between man and woman and in a deeper sense, between man and nature.

When I look at nature and the people in it, I feel they all move with a unity of rhythm and growth, they take birth and they die. This sense of oneness has strongly influenced my work. When I paint a creeper, a plant, a vase, a mountain, a tree or a human being, it has the same spirit and vibration. It attracts me strongly and I find that there is a deep sense of inner force, a subconscious force that works in me to create the images and objects with an undefined spirit and vibration. I consciously judge them, and accept or reject them, with my experience, understanding, and knowledge of the development of arts in our time." [...] (Jogen Chowdhury, Painted Drawings, 2001)