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Members of the group included painters George Keyt and Richard Gabriel. The 43 Group artists were able to create a more secular painting tradition than the one supported by the Ceylon Society of Arts. The artist died in 1969.\r\n\r\nIn this painting we see two highly stylized saintly figures. On the left, we observe a tall standing figure whilst on the right, a smaller hunched seated figure. Both saints are dressed in long saffron-coloured robes. The two figures are set against a dark ground and framed within a roughly executed siena border.","physicalDescription":"Painting, in acrylic on paper, a tall standing figure, left, and a smaller hunched seated figure, right, both dressed in long saffron-coloured robes.  Set against a dark ground and framed within a roughly executed siena border.  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