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Songs from the Blood

For the first time since artist Rekha Rodwittiya’s paintings titled Songs from the Blood of the Weary became part of the late art patron Jehangir Nicholson’s collection in 1996, they are on display. The aficionado came upon the 12 paintings, each around 10 feet high, and "decided overnight that he wanted (them) to be part of his collection,” noted Kamini Sawhney, curator of the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation (JNAF). The canvases in varying shades of red, yellow and ochre represent women "without objectifying them. Her larger than life figures of women going about their daily tasks dominating their surroundings and......



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