Indian Scene, nd

Adani Roy’s Indian Scene combines the finely delineated figures of traditional Indian miniatures in the foreground with a looser landscape in the background reminiscent of the English landscape tradition. Roy spent time in Devon in the South of England and submitted a series of landscape works made there to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition over the course of the 1930s, which may have informed this work. This pen and ink drawing is undated, but was included among the works given by Jim and Helen Ede to the University of Cambridge along with the Kettle’s Yard house and its entire contents in 1966, so must have been made prior to that date.

Gift of the artist to H.S. Ede