Description:

Here we have an off-set print from 1950s of Sree Veena Saraswati by the famous South indian artist Kovilpatti Kondiah Raju.. It may have some signs of fading due to its age which adds to it's beauty.

About the Artist:

Kovilpatti Kondiah Raju (1898-1976) was born in Mylapore, Chennai to a family of traditional artisans. His father C. Kuppaswami Raju was a Siddha medical practitioner. Before his death in 1912, Kuppaswami made arrangements for the young Kondiah Raju to learn the traditional skill of the Raju community - Religious painting.

His depictions were mostly influenced not only by Ravi Varma’s compositions of the Gods and Goddesses but also by the popular art of Tanjore paintings in which his community, the Rajus of Tanjore and Tiruchi had distinguished themselves from the Nayakar period i.e. from 16th Century.

So pervasive are his prints that many South Indians would visualise and recognise not only the many deities, but also leaders of the Indian freedom movement, contemporary political leaders and other important personalities only as depicted in his prints. His prints have been collected internationally and are even archived in the Victoria and Albert Museum, H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive, Syracuse University library.

His latter years were spent in Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu where he establisted the "Devi Art Studio". When Kondiah Raju died on 27 July 1976, his pupils spoke of him with awe, calling him an 'artist-saint'. Though he had earned a fortune through his artistic commissions, he never married, distributed his wealth to others, and lived a simple life like a saint with one shirt, one veshti and one towel. In 1971, he would even turn down an offer to travel to Chennai to receive a Government award recognising his contributions to art.

(Source Wikipedia)

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Product Details:

SKUID: POP005

Product Name: Sree Veena Saraswati by Kondiah Raju

Artist: Kovilpatti Kondiah Raju

Artist's Signature:  Yes

Dimensions:

24.5” H 18.5” L x.75” W (Frame)

20” H x 13.5” L (Print) ; 3 kgs

weight : 3 kgs

Press Details: The Premier Lithoworks, Sivakasi, Tamizhnadu

Age: from 1950s and hence may have some signs of fading which adds to it's beauty.

Frame: Frame is new and made of Teak wood and has an acrylic protection in place of glass.

P. S. The products we sell are vintage and antiques and hence may have visible scratches and chip offs. We cherish them as they are reminders of the story they have been part of and hence we proudly display them in the product pictures too.

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