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Lot 24
A Set Of 4 Ravi Varma Press Oleograph
Estimate : 13,000 - 18,000

This lot offers four Lithographs from the R. U.&V. Press, Ghatkopar and the Ravi Varma Press Picture Depot. The printing press started in Bombay by Raja Ravi Varma and his younger brother C. Raja Raja Varma that was later relocated to Lonavala by the German engineer Fritz Schleicher who took over the business in 1901. Even after Varma's disengagement, the press continued to issue prints by other artists with his signature.
Ravi Varma contributed fundamentally to the way the Hindus of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have envisioned these deities. These four works embody Varma's sentiments whereby he wanted to make art more accessible. The print was rendered in the ubiquitous style of calendar art made popular by Raja Ravi Varma. After him, many artists set up printing presses across the country to churn our prints and oleographs.
'By mass-producing oleographs, the Ravi Varma press challenged conventional ideas of not only the ownership of art but also the privilege of faith. Caste hierarchies that dictated who could access temples and worship gods and when could suddenly be upended. Blurring the distinctions between ‘high' and 'low' art, the ‘royal’ artist became a champion of making art accessible to all.'
(Google Arts and Culture)

a)Vishnu-Lakshmi on Serpent Anant
Ravi Varma Press Picture Depot
Bombay/Malavi/Lonavla
c. 20th century

b)Shiv Ling
Registration no. 457
Ravi Varma Press Picture Depot
Bombay/Malavi/Lonavla
c. 20th century

c) Jal Kridda (water sport)
R. U. & V Press, Ghatkopar

d) Chandra
Registration no. 521
Ravi Varma Press Picture Depot
Bombay/Malavi/Lonavla
c. 20th century

Hammer Price :
16,000
+ Buyer premium (10 %)
 1600.00
Total
17,600
The lot has ended
Description

This lot offers four Lithographs from the R. U.&V. Press, Ghatkopar and the Ravi Varma Press Picture Depot. The printing press started in Bombay by Raja Ravi Varma and his younger brother C. Raja Raja Varma that was later relocated to Lonavala by the German engineer Fritz Schleicher who took over the business in 1901. Even after Varma's disengagement, the press continued to issue prints by other artists with his signature.
Ravi Varma contributed fundamentally to the way the Hindus of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have envisioned these deities. These four works embody Varma's sentiments whereby he wanted to make art more accessible. The print was rendered in the ubiquitous style of calendar art made popular by Raja Ravi Varma. After him, many artists set up printing presses across the country to churn our prints and oleographs.
'By mass-producing oleographs, the Ravi Varma press challenged conventional ideas of not only the ownership of art but also the privilege of faith. Caste hierarchies that dictated who could access temples and worship gods and when could suddenly be upended. Blurring the distinctions between ‘high' and 'low' art, the ‘royal’ artist became a champion of making art accessible to all.'
(Google Arts and Culture)

a)Vishnu-Lakshmi on Serpent Anant
Ravi Varma Press Picture Depot
Bombay/Malavi/Lonavla
c. 20th century

b)Shiv Ling
Registration no. 457
Ravi Varma Press Picture Depot
Bombay/Malavi/Lonavla
c. 20th century

c) Jal Kridda (water sport)
R. U. & V Press, Ghatkopar

d) Chandra
Registration no. 521
Ravi Varma Press Picture Depot
Bombay/Malavi/Lonavla
c. 20th century

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