File:Sandeep Mukherjee Untitled (One More Time) 2002.jpg

Drawing by Sandeep Mukherjee, Untitled (One More Time), Detail 3 (acrylic, color pencil and embossed drawing on duralene, 25" x 300" for entire work, 2002). The image illustrates an early period and body of work in Sandeep Mukherjee's career beginning in the late 1990s, when he produced minimal, embossed and incised drawings of nude figures—typically multiple images of his own head and nude body—floating in ethereal color fields. In this detail of a larger mural-like work, he depicts himself full-body in ale colored-pencil contour lines, floating against a field of embossed flower shapes. This series of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed widely in national art and daily press publications, and collected by major art institutions.

Artist Sandeep Mukherjee. Copyright held by the artist.

Sandeep Mukherjee

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating an early period and body of work in Sandeep Mukherjee's career that began in the late 1990s: his minimal, embossed and incised drawings of nude figures floating in ethereal color fields executed on paper and Duralene—a translucent, vellum-like polymer film that simulates the slick luminosity of celluloid. These works fused aspects of Asian art traditions with Western notions of subjectivity in shifting relations of figure and ground, light and space, and points of view, and carried erotic overtones that derived from both their subjects and skin-like surfaces. They consisted of multiple images of Mukherjee's own head and nude body meticulously rendered in pale colored-pencil contour lines, needle pricks and embossed or creased shapes, which floated through softly colored, monochrome fields incised with motifs of flowers, leaves, starbursts, and rippling water. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize a key developmental phase in his art, which brought early and ongoing recognition from art journals, daily press publications, and eventually museums. Mukherjee's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Sandeep Mukherjee, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.