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                        STRi AVALEKHA
             A Collection of works from the Archive

“I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness...I haven’t the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is a mere pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.” - Georges Braque

When we sat …