Untitled (The Annunciation)

Jamini Roy trained in Western academic painting styles and initially worked in a Post-Impressionist style. In the 1920s, he became inspired by the lines and palette of paintings (patas) sold in bazaars outside of the Kalighat temples in Bengal, India. He soon developed his unique revival of indigenous painting traditions, as homage to the folk painters of his native Bengal. Depicting the Puranic gods and epics, Roy's works were suffused with the lyric romanticism of his Bengali forbearers.