Lalitha Lajmi (1932 - 2023)

Watercolour on Arch

14 x 21 Inches

Signed & Dated Lower Mid

Year: 2017

This late watercolour continues Lalitha Lajmi’s dialogue between theatre, memory, and the self. The two figures, poised in profile against a patterned background, appear locked in an unspoken exchange. The setting—half domestic, half dreamlike—suggests the quiet dramaturgy that shaped much of Lajmi’s art.

Having turned to watercolours in her later years, she embraced their translucency to evoke fragility and distance. The gentle contrast of the warm ochres and cool blues recalls her long-standing interest in human dualities—connection and detachment, performance and the inner self.

Lajmi often drew from the worlds of theatre and cinema that surrounded her, yet her narratives were resolutely personal. In these final works, painted at night in her Lokhandwala home, the figures seem to inhabit her own reflective theatre

Provenance: The Artist's Estate