Narrow dark deep-set eyes with dark eyelashes, strong flaring nostrils, full petalled 3D lips, high cheek-bones that taper to a strong chin. That is how this unselfconscious working class beauty could be described. She sits face-on looking straight into the eyes of the artist.
Red and green is a classic colour theme. The muse is clad in a parrot-green transparent synthetic saree. That is the artist’s green coat hanging from the bed-poles that Mumbiram often used as an easel. The lady’s madder velvet blouse brings out the different shades of madder of the bindi-spot on her forehead, her sensuous lips and the centre-bead of her barely visible necklace of thin tulasi beads.