Cat With Prawns: Un-framed

Description

Jamini Roy turned away from European academic training and looked instead to the folk painters around Kolkata’s Kalighat temple.

The cat clutching a prawn became one of his most recognisable images — bold, flat, and completely unapologetic. He returned to it again and again, like a jazz musician revisiting a favourite riff, each version slightly different but always unmistakably his.

On BAC’s large-format canvas, the work brings warmth, wit, and a distinctly Bengali character into the space.

Presented as a floating canvas installation, the artwork is tension-mounted on solid Sagwan teak, creating a clean, modern structure designed for contemporary walls.