Absorbed Wall Art

Absorbed — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Kalighat Pat grew up in 19th-century Kolkata, painted by patua (chitrakar) scroll-painters who settled near the Kalighat Kali temple and sold quick watercolours to pilgrims. Alongside gods and goddesses they painted the everyday and performing people of Calcutta — musicians, dancers, fish-sellers and dandies — in the same economical brush, which is why the form is often called India's first modern popular art.

Updated 22 Jun 2026