Sketch of Bridal Robes

“Sketch of Bridal Robes”, Raja Ravi Varma. Graphite on paper 33cm x 23cm.

Sketch of a Lord and Lady Reading a Newspaper

Raja Ravi Varma. Graphite onpaper; 21cm x 20cm

Sketch of Maternal Care

Raja Ravi Varma. Graphite on paper; 36cm x 24cm. 

Sketch of a Man reading Palmleaves

Raja Ravi Varma. Graphite on paper; 25cm x20cm 

Sketch of a Head of a Horse

Raja Ravi Varma. Graphite on paper; 25.5cm x 21cm. 

Sketch of Bakavati and Tajulmulk

Raja Ravi Varma. Graphite on paper; 33cm x23.5cm.  

Sketch of a Lady

Raja Ravi Varma. Graphite on paper; 9

Street Dancers

Lady Swinging

Lady Swinging “Preparatory Sketch of a Girl on a Swing”, Raja Ravi Varma. (Oil on canvas; 31cm x22CM)

Dance Pose

Dance Pose (“Preparatory Study of a Bharatanatyam Dancer in Green Blouse”, Raja Ravi Varma.Oil on board; 23cm x 15cm.)

Dance Pose

Dance Pose ( “Preparatory Study of a Bharatanatyam Dancer in Red Blouse”, Raja Ravi Varma. Oil on board; 23cm x 13.5cm.)

Diplomas granted to Ravi Varma by the United States of America

Raja Ravi Varma sent ten paintings to the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Gypsies of South India was one of the ten paintings sent. The series secured him diplomas from the Exhibition Committee. Diplomas granted to Ravi Varma by the United States of America, The World’s Columbian Commission. (61cm x 46cm)

Diplomas granted to Ravi Varma

Diplomas granted to Ravi Varma by the United States of America, The World’s Columbian Commission. 61cm x 46cm.

Gypsies Of South India (Oil on canvas 1893, 55”x38”)

The Gypsies of south India is a remarkable picture of Raja Ravi Varma. It conveys very powerfully the lot of this nomadic tribe of the south who make their homes on the waysides of the country. There is in it a mother, a dusky woman with a child on her lap pouring forth her soul in song to the gods, to the accompaniment of a thampuru a little girl with a wistful far away looking eyes and a boy free occupied with his itches. It is life in the row and the dark back drop of dusk as it closes in, symbolises the bleakness of their destiny.

Judith (Oil on canvas, Undated, 63” x 41”)

Painted after, the Benjamin Constant’s Judith 1886. Judith was a forceful theme and a popular model with Cynopean painters for centuries because it fish fed the painting of a scantily dressed ‘temptress’, while reinforcing the notion of patriotism and courage. The story relates the assassination of Holofermes, General of Assyrian army who had invaded the town of Bethulla where Judith lived. In the original story Judith avenges the invasion of her town by killing Holoferms while he slept.