"Untitled (Mother and Child) - II" is a famous painting by the Indian master Narayan Shridhar Bendre. Unaffected simplicity is the prevalent tone in this portrait of a mother with her sleeping child, where the use of bright colors and deliberate lack of detailing creates a spatial tension and emphasizes rural serenity.
Bendre was interested in the depiction of joy and the charms of rural India. With great sensitivity, he painted women in comfortable rural settings engaged in social activities and domestic tasks. This painting testifies not only to the painterly expertise of this leader of Modernism, but to the authenticity of his expression.
