Noted painter Lalitha Lajmi passed away yesterday at the age of 90. She was sister of late actor-filmmaker Guru Dutt. The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) shared the news of her demise.
In its post, NGMA wrote, Lalitha Lajmi was born to a poet father and a poly-linguist writer mother in Kolkata in 1932. Coming from a family involved in the arts, Lajmi was very fond of classical dance and painting. She found her calling in painting. An unparalleled water-colourist, through her works she narrates a layered history of the modern Indian woman in the decades that followed Independence. Often her works reflect the hidden tensions that exist between men and women, captured in the different roles they play. Yet, her women are not meek individuals, but assertive and individualistic, with a strong autobiographical element.
