Literary and performing arts came effortlessly to Rabindranath. Before he was twenty-five, he was well-recognized as a poet, novelist, essayist, budding short story writer, songwriter, playwright, actor and singer. But painting, despite his eagerness, eluded him for a long time. He found his way into painting only in his sixty-fourth year. He achieved this by transforming errant lines in his manuscripts into decorative or expressive doodles. In other words, he became an image-maker by suppressing words and discursive communication. While painting, he drew upon the innate sense of form, proportion, and rhythm he had developed as a consummate penman and musician, and combined it with a keen sense of colours to achieve affective expression. The collection represents the full range of his oeuvre chronologically and thematically. It also holds relatively more paintings than any other, representing the subtle drama of object animation and object transformation.