Laborer couple

1943

Dating: Exact year
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: Zainul Abedin Fair Use (WikiArt)

Zainul Abedin Fair Use (WikiArt). Full-frame resize and JPEG compression. Source label retained; no independent clearance claimed.

About this artwork

Witness to poverty and human vulnerability in colonial Bengal. Selected alongside Abedin’s documented 1943 famine practice; individual WikiArt sheets are not automatically equated with the specific loans shown at documenta.

Artwork sources

Decolonisation — museum and scholarly research
WikiArt — selected decolonisation objects

Image source