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Another hand reaches into a two-compartment wooden tray of almonds and cashews, while a further fan of cards appears at the lower right. At the centre lies a face-down card with an ornamental blue and gold pattern. The carpet is scattered with indigo and teal leaves, and sprigs of white flowers cross the foreground. The figure on the left wears a cream garment printed with blue leaf shapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVermilion red dominates, cut by indigo, teal, cream and the warm browns of the nuts and the tray. Colour is laid in broad, flat shapes with the pattern added in quick, visible strokes, so the carpet reads almost like a printed textile. The tight crop and the strong diagonals of the arms and cards give the work its movement, while the repeating leaf motif ties the figure and the carpet together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brahm Collection","offers":[{"title":"24 x 36 inches","offer_id":45781682618391,"sku":null,"price":365.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36 x 48 inches","offer_id":45781682651159,"sku":null,"price":507.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"48 x 60 inches","offer_id":45781682683927,"sku":null,"price":657.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"60 x 72 inches","offer_id":45781682716695,"sku":null,"price":887.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/7711\/9511\/files\/1_389a149a-885a-4e0a-90b2-c525579b7332.png?v=1792415355"},{"product_id":"handpainted-matisse-inspired-vyaghra-mukhauta","title":"Handpainted – Matisse-Inspired – Vyaghra Mukhauta","description":"\u003ch5\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Vyaghra Mukhauta' presents a tiger as a single, frontal, mask-like face set against a field of unbroken cobalt blue. It draws on Henri Matisse's habit of building a picture from flat blocks of strong colour, and on the bold, ornamental graphics of Indian decorative art. The tiger is reduced to pattern, a face assembled from stripes, diamonds and teardrop shapes, and its power comes from symmetry rather than from realism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe face is painted in orange, yellow, pink and turquoise, with deep blue stripes curving across the brow and cheeks and diamond marks on the muzzle. The eyes are ringed in turquoise and blue, and bared white teeth sit above a patterned band. Cream tassel-like strokes radiate around the head and fall beneath the chin, and two pendants of stacked discs and diamonds hang on either side below the jaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCobalt, saffron, coral, turquoise and cream are set against each other at full strength, and the cream fringe lifts the face from the blue. Short, visible brushstrokes keep the flat shapes alive, and the mirrored composition gives the picture a ceremonial stillness. It reads as a graphic emblem more than a portrait. The pattern repeats from left to right, so the eye moves across the face in a steady rhythm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brahm Collection","offers":[{"title":"24 x 24 inches","offer_id":45781684289559,"sku":null,"price":391.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36 x 36 inches","offer_id":45781684322327,"sku":null,"price":544.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"48 x 48 inches","offer_id":45781684355095,"sku":null,"price":646.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"60 x 60 inches","offer_id":45781684387863,"sku":null,"price":738.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/7711\/9511\/files\/4_d50e33ac-c282-44af-be47-0db0b8d6d65b.png?v=1792415340"},{"product_id":"handpainted-matisse-inspired-sur-aur-taal","title":"Handpainted – Matisse-Inspired – Sur Aur Taal","description":"\u003ch5\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Sur Aur Taal' brings melody and rhythm into one cropped composition: a long-necked stringed instrument is played above a pair of hand drums. The painting takes Henri Matisse's love of patterned floors and clothing and uses it to frame an Indian musical moment. The performers are shown only in part, through hands, sleeves and folded legs, so that the instruments and the patterned ground become the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA seated figure in green and cream holds the rounded body of a stringed instrument, its face decorated with two carved rosettes and its long neck running to the upper right. Below, a figure in blue plays a pair of tabla, with hands on each drum and the striped straps drawn in cream. Beneath them lies a deep green rug printed with red and cream flowers and a rope-like border, set against a vermilion ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreen, vermilion and cobalt blue are the main notes, with the warm brown of the drums and the cream of the skins. Shapes are flat and outlined with confident, dark strokes, while the rug's pattern is added in small, quick marks. The overlapping hands and diagonal instruments create a lively sense of rhythm across the picture. The contrast of warm browns and cool greens keeps the picture balanced, and every hand and instrument is simplified to a clear, readable shape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brahm Collection","offers":[{"title":"24 x 36 inches","offer_id":45781685698583,"sku":null,"price":365.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36 x 48 inches","offer_id":45781685731351,"sku":null,"price":507.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"48 x 60 inches","offer_id":45781685764119,"sku":null,"price":657.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"60 x 72 inches","offer_id":45781685796887,"sku":null,"price":887.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/7711\/9511\/files\/7_ac24d31d-bad4-491d-9847-64d76f6108e3.png?v=1792415352"},{"product_id":"handpainted-matisse-inspired-sagar-mandapa","title":"Handpainted – Matisse-Inspired – Sagar Mandapa","description":"\u003ch5\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Sagar Mandapa' frames a distant scene through a stone opening, in the spirit of the open-window pictures Henri Matisse painted. Three dancers move in a line on a terrace, seen through a pillared portal, with the sea and a pale moon-like disc behind them. The painting places Matisse's calm blue-and-terracotta contrast within the architecture of an Indian stone pavilion, so that the dancers appear like a memory glimpsed through a doorway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe portal is built of carved, terracotta-red columns and a stepped lintel, with dark, rough outlines describing each moulding. Three dancers in matching magenta costumes with cream borders and white flowers in their hair step in unison, arms extended in stylised poses. Beyond them lies the blue sea, with a pale disc in a clear sky above, and broad steps lead down toward the viewer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe palette is terracotta, cobalt, sky blue and magenta, with cream used sparingly for the disc, the borders and the flowers. The warm, heavily outlined architecture frames the cool, loosely brushed sea and sky, so the eye is drawn to the three small figures at the centre. The painting reads as a quiet, ceremonial pause by the water. The distant horizon sits low and level, which adds stillness to a scene otherwise full of movement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brahm Collection","offers":[{"title":"24 x 36 inches","offer_id":45781686976535,"sku":null,"price":365.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36 x 48 inches","offer_id":45781687009303,"sku":null,"price":507.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"48 x 60 inches","offer_id":45781687042071,"sku":null,"price":657.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"60 x 72 inches","offer_id":45781687074839,"sku":null,"price":887.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/7711\/9511\/files\/10_5c0b3e6c-e2da-4927-86ed-4aad831feb9e.png?v=1792415351"},{"product_id":"handpainted-matisse-jamini-roy-inspired-marjara-vatsalya","title":"Handpainted – Matisse and Jamini Roy-Inspired – Marjara Vatsalya","description":"\u003ch5\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Marjara Vatsalya' is a study of tenderness in a very graphic form: a large cat carries a small white kitten at its neck. It brings together two influences. From Henri Matisse comes the cut-out way of building a picture from flat, interlocking patches of colour; from the Bengali painter Jamini Roy, who drew on the bold brushwork of Kalighat pat and Bengal folk painting and painted cats himself, comes the heavy, decorative outline and the restrained, flat palette. The animal is set against a field of burnt orange, and the result is a playful and bold image of care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cat stands in profile, its head turned to the viewer with wide, green-ringed eyes and orange whiskers, and the kitten hangs from its mouth, looking out with matching round eyes. The body is divided into looping bands of black, turquoise, saffron and cream, ending in a long, ribbon-like tail that curls up the right side. Cream brush marks sweep across the ground, and small saffron leaf shapes float around the animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBurnt orange, black, turquoise, saffron and cream make a warm, high-contrast palette, with the cream strokes at the edges giving the picture a dry, painterly rim. The flat, patterned planes echo cut-paper forms, while the visible brushwork keeps it handmade in feeling. The animal's decorated body gives the composition its rhythm. The long tail forms a calligraphic curve that balances the small kitten at the upper left.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brahm Collection","offers":[{"title":"24 x 24 inches","offer_id":45781689171991,"sku":null,"price":391.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36 x 36 inches","offer_id":45781689204759,"sku":null,"price":544.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"48 x 48 inches","offer_id":45781689237527,"sku":null,"price":646.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"60 x 60 inches","offer_id":45781689270295,"sku":null,"price":738.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/7711\/9511\/files\/13_d027c028-f15a-4a77-9be9-ed327b2f32dc.png?v=1792415344"},{"product_id":"handpainted-matisse-inspired-ganesha-janani","title":"Handpainted – Matisse-Inspired – Ganesha Janani","description":"\u003ch5\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Ganesha Janani' is a painting of Ganesha and his mother Parvati, drawn with the swelling curves and cut-out-like leaves of Henri Matisse's late work. Parvati bends over the child in her lap, and both are swept into a swirl of red, green and gold shapes. The subject belongs to Indian devotional imagery, while the flat, rhythmic treatment is Matisse-inspired, so the tenderness of mother and child is carried by shape and colour rather than detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParvati has closed eyes, a red bindi, a gold earring, a bangle and long dark hair that flows into green leaf-like forms. She cradles the small, cream-coloured Ganesha, who has an elephant's head, a golden crown topped with a flame-like shape and a raised hand. Around them, the red of her sari and the petals of a golden lotus fold into one another, and a few bright flame-shaped marks cross the lower left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVermilion, emerald, saffron and cream circulate through the picture in long, overlapping curves. Each colour is laid down as a flat shape, outlined by thin cream gaps rather than dark lines, and the painted surface keeps the soft, slightly dry edge of a brush. The curves make the pair a single, calm form at the heart of the composition. Warm and cool colours alternate across the page, which keeps the swirling composition from feeling crowded.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brahm Collection","offers":[{"title":"24 x 36 inches","offer_id":45781689499671,"sku":null,"price":365.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36 x 48 inches","offer_id":45781689532439,"sku":null,"price":507.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"48 x 60 inches","offer_id":45781689565207,"sku":null,"price":657.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"60 x 72 inches","offer_id":45781689597975,"sku":null,"price":887.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/7711\/9511\/files\/16_04fd6fdd-c922-4086-a31a-80d7ce7797c2.png?v=1792415353"},{"product_id":"handpainted-matisse-inspired-kaliya-nritya-krishna-on-the-serpent","title":"Handpainted – Matisse-Inspired – Kaliya Nritya: Krishna on the Serpent","description":"\u003ch5\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Kaliya Nritya' shows Krishna playing his flute as he dances on the coils of a serpent, painted as a few strong, flat shapes against a pale cream ground. The subject is the well-known episode of Krishna dancing on the serpent Kaliya, here translated through Henri Matisse's cut-out way of working, with big, simplified forms and no modelling. The balance of the single figure and the curling forms beneath him gives the painting its lift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKrishna is shown in blue profile with a topknot, a ring-shaped earring and long dark hair streaming behind him. He holds a long flute to his lips, with one hand on his hip, and balances on one foot with the other leg crossed. A saffron lower garment and a saffron scarf flutter around him. Below him, maroon scrolls and olive leaf-like shapes rise and curl at the left and right, forming the stylised coils of the serpent and giving the figure a rhythmic, almost floral base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCobalt blue, saffron, maroon, olive and cream make a strict palette, with the blue figure standing out against the cream and the maroon grounding the base. Edges are clean and flat, with gaps of cream showing between shapes like cut paper. Subtle texture in the cream ground and the softly uneven paint keep it clearly hand-painted. The pale ground is left open around the figure, which gives the pose room to move.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brahm Collection","offers":[{"title":"24 x 36 inches","offer_id":45781689860119,"sku":null,"price":365.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"36 x 48 inches","offer_id":45781689892887,"sku":null,"price":507.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"48 x 60 inches","offer_id":45781689925655,"sku":null,"price":657.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"60 x 72 inches","offer_id":45781689958423,"sku":null,"price":887.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/7711\/9511\/files\/19_87b714e2-49f5-4baf-b6e6-461ed4cdc980.png?v=1792415347"},{"product_id":"handpainted-matisse-inspired-rakta-bindu","title":"Handpainted – Matisse-Inspired – Rakta Bindu","description":"\u003ch5\u003eProvenance\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Rakta Bindu' pairs a seated woman with a large red disc floating above her head. In the way of Henri Matisse's cut-out compositions, the figure, the disc and the offerings below are reduced to a few flat shapes on a quiet cream ground. The red disc, like an enormous bindi or a rising sun, turns a still domestic scene into something ceremonial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA woman in a red sari with a gold necklace and a small gold ornament at her hair parting reclines on one arm, her gaze lowered. Around her on a deep maroon floor sit two slender lamp stands topped with red flames, bowls heaped with red powder, white jasmine-like flowers on green leaves, and scattered petals. Above her, the red disc is the largest and simplest shape in the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe palette is limited to crimson, maroon, cream, white and a little gold and green, and the reds are layered in different tones so the figure, floor and disc are distinct without any outline. 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