Rabindranath Tagore
Medium
drypoint
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of James Parmelee
Accession Number
1940.835
Tags
male
About this artwork
Poet laureate and first Asian recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature, Tagore (1861–1941) was a leader of the nonviolent movement to free India from British rule. The artist has rendered Tagore’s face with penetrating realism and luxurious textures. In contrast, his body is left as a sketch, giving him an ethereal quality; his hand positions are evocative of the mudras, or symbolic gestures, of Indian holy men or divinities. This portrait was probably made during Tagore’s 1920 visit to Londo...