Krishna eating the fire (Manjit Bawa)

Krishna Eating the Fire — Manjit Bawa's c. 1980 oil on canvas. Flat, luminous colour and Hindu myth from the modernist painter of Dhuri and Delhi.

Krishna eating the fire, Manjit Bawa, Oil on canvas, 71 1/10 × 97 in | 180.5 × 246.5 cm, c. 1980

Bawa was born in Dhuri, British India and studied in Delhi. He worked for some time in Britain and then moved back to Delhi to live and work.