Sakhi

Four women stand close together against a deep indigo ground — their jewellery elaborate, their expressions self-possessed. One raises her hand in an elegant mudra. The painting's debt to classical sculpture is clear in its frontality and the careful rendering of ornament, yet the colour palette and the warmth of the facial expressions are entirely Puli Vijaya Kishore's own. A celebration of female friendship, beauty, and self-knowledge.

Original watercolour on paper. One-of-a-kind.