Dimensions: 36 inches X 41 inches Oil Paintings: Indian Oil Paintings & Oil On Canvas @ExoticIndiaArt Oil Painting on CanvasThis exceptionally fine painting, oil on canvas, rendered using justblack, its various shades blended with the off-white of the canvas,its background, portrays two women in their advanced years, perhapstwo sisters with closely resembling iconographic features, sharingidentical anatomy and with an alike lifestyle and nature of work. Assuggest the style of their wears : lehengas, half-sleeve blouses andodhanis over their heads and shoulders, and of course, the banglesof bones on wrists, the two women are essentially from a Rajasthansvillage. The Bagru style mud-resist print, partially visible in thewomans lehenga and a plain mono-dyed odhini worn covering thehead, socially prescribed for a backward tribal woman in Rajasthan,more often a widow, as also the bones bangles and the style of hair,indicate that the portrayed women are tribal widows, perhaps potterswith their pots lying around.The two sisters are seated, perhaps on a roadside with a heap of theirpots around looking for buyers, though there is none around to buy.One of the two women, perhaps the younger, is sitting on a raisedseat, a stone-block or a part of wall-plinth, while the elder issquatting on the ground with her both arms resting on the knees of herupwards raised legs. For an ambience corresponding to the state oftheir mind the artist has painted behind them an old naked brick wallwith large cracks and widened mud-joints, an appropriate backdrop forhis theme : the women with all joints and all hopes broken much likethe wall in the background. It seems that some sudden and somewhatunusual occurrence has drawn their attention and taken aback, dismayedand with some pain in eyes, they are looking at it.In any cas