Krishen Khanna : Untitled

Printed under the close supervision of artist Krishen Khanna, this work belongs to his iconic bandwallahs. This series captures musicians who usually lead wedding processions in North India, playing music for long hours with little money. His works are humanistic renderings which predominantly portray the middle and lower classes and their trials and tribulations.

Born in Lyallpur (now Faislabad, Pakistan) in 1925, pre-partition India, Krishen Khanna is a genre painter and a narrativist who studied at the Mayo School of Art, Lahore. His migration to Shimla, India, after the Partition of India and Pakistan and the chaos following the aftermath deeply scarred him and became the inspiration behind his early works.