Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 10. (Budapest, 1967)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Reports on the Activities of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1965-1966

Fig, 11. India: Save, Women at the Well. First half of the 20

th century. Tempera on paper. One woman is carrying the waterjug on her head, two others are drawing the water. This everyday scene is saturated with the humanity of the painter and tradition of the Indian painting. The muscular bodies of the peasant women are rendered palpable by the reddishbrown, orange coloured and red dresses. The faces drawn in profile do not show individual characters but are the reflection of the traditional Indian women type. The figures are joined together by the same symmetric movement of the arms. The distortion of hands and feet follow the pattern of the old Indian type of painting. The real man is the subject here, expressed in a simplified form, rather colourfuUy. The colourfullness in this picture means the depth of a few colours, not the polychrome richness. What gives a poetical expression of reality is revealed in the small flowers rhythmically repeated in the wai*m yellowish-green lawn of the landscape and the composition kept in levels without indicating the depth. 27.1 X 23.5 cm. Inventory number: 65.101. V. H.