Bandsmen in red and blue uniforms and peaked caps play a yellow tuba, a trumpet and a long wind instrument; at the right a dark-skinned woman in a blue headscarf presses her hands to her face. In the foreground a bandsman in a crimson cap and a green sash is seen from behind.

Serenade for Lajwanti

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  • Acrylic Ink on Canvas
  • 32 × 23 in (height × width)
  • Edition of 75, signed and numbered

The story behind

As is characteristic with many of Krishen Khanna’s genre paintings, the bandwallahs who vigorously serenade Lajwanti represent perennially the act of doing. It is the tireless march, the constancy of the gesture – no matter how misplaced the tune – that lends his figures an unmistakable heroism.

Gayatri Sinha, Images in My Time (2007)
Detail: The woman's face between her hands, with chalky blues, orange cuff and crimson cap pressed around her.
Detail

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