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UNTITLED (DRAUPADI AND THE FIVE PANDAVAS)

UNTITLED (DRAUPADI AND THE FIVE PANDAVAS)

UNTITLED (DRAUPADI AND THE FIVE PANDAVAS)

Ramgopal Vijaivargiya

UNTITLED (DRAUPADI AND THE FIVE PANDAVAS)

year

c. 1930s

size

20.5 x 27.0 in. / 52.1 x 68.6 cm.

medium

Watercolour wash and gold paint on paper

Born in Baler in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur district, Ramgopal Vijaivargiya developed a keen interest in painting at an early age. He studied under Shailendra Nath Dey, a direct disciple of Abanindranath Tagore, who introduced him to the technique of the Bengal School’s watercolour wash. This painting depicts the five Pandava brothers with their common wife, Draupadi, painted in twilight tones. Ramgopal Vijaivargiya’s painting shows them tired and exhausted as they wander in the forest. For someone who was inspired by the revivalist pictorial tradition, it is not surprising to note its formal influence upon the expression he gives to the characters. The work has the unmistakable stamp of nostalgia, its lyrical expression intact within its distinctive Orientalist trope.

published references

Datta, Ella, Changing Images: An Exhibition of 20th Century Modern Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2001), p. 52
Singh, Kishore, ed., Manifestations X | 75 Artists, 20th Century Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2013), p. 64
UNTITLED (DRAUPADI AND THE FIVE PANDAVAS)
UNTITLED (DRAUPADI AND THE FIVE PANDAVAS)
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Art Artist Names Single Ramgopal Vijaivargiya

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