Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Final Release: Abanindro Nath Tagore
Two shaven-headed figures turn towards a pale, rising movement of light and cloud. Soft brown and grey forms overlap the lower bodies while the upper faces remain distinct against the darker field. Tagore's plate names the final release. The scene does not draw a hard boundary between the figures and the atmosphere around them, making disappearance or passage visible through dissolving contours. The two heads preserve human attention within that movement, preventing the picture from becoming only an abstract cloud. Its soft edges and restrained palette give the religious transition an inward, contemplative character.
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Abanindro Nath Tagore. "The Final Release: Abanindro Nath Tagore" [editorial title]. In Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists, Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Original scan, 1914, George G. Harrap & Co.. Source scan leaf 345. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/hindu-colour-345
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Original source design and caption inspected; composition retained with scan margins trimmed. No reconstructed or recoloured details. Artist credit follows the printed illustration list at active reader leaves 19–20.
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Abanindro Nath Tagore. The Final Release: Abanindro Nath Tagore. Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists. Scan leaf 345. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/hindu-colour-345