Rare Paintings
 27 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Painting from the Akbarnama, the battle preceding the capture of the fort at Bundu, gouache on paper, Mughal, India, 1590-1595.

This painting by the Mughal court artist Tulsi Kalan depicts the battle preceding the capture of Bundi fort in north-western India by the Mughal army in 1577. It is a... Read More
 27 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Painting; watercolour, Houses and temple, Calcutta, ca. 1825

By a Calcutta artist, perhaps originally from Murshidabad.

The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert, later Lieutenant-General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert,... Read More
 27 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Painting by a British artist; George Landseer; Landscape with men and camels; India, 1860.

Pastel and watercolour on paper.

Landscape view with men and camels. A fort is situated on a mountain in the background, possibly the Fort of Hari Parbut in Kashmir.

George Landseer (1829–78) was a... Read More
 26 May 2013 Rare Paintings
A physician's wife and family in a carriage drawn by a camel ridden by a servant: suggesting the social importance of the physician, India
Coloured lithograph by F. Jones after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
Published: Day & Son, lithographers to the Queen

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 26 May 2013 Rare Paintings
A man carrying a ceremonial object stands next to a tableau of rocks, a camel, decorated headgear and other animals set on an ornate base.
Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Published: [India], [18--?]

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 26 May 2013 Rare Paintings
An Indian military procession with camels, elephants and horses
Gouache drawing

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 26 May 2013 Rare Paintings
An Indian man riding a camel
India
Early 1800s

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 25 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Rama-carita-manasa by Tulsidas
Gouache miniature
Sugriva paying homage to Rama.

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 23 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Ramachandra on Pushpak Vimana
Modern Litho Works, Bombay
Early 19th century Read More
 19 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Essay:
Jamini Roy’s Art: Modernity, Politics and Reception
By Debmalya Das
Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India

“Although it is with Matisse that his [Jamini Roy’s] nature of art can be compared, from one perspective, the
diversified richness of his development finds parallel only in Picasso... Read More
 19 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Jamini Roy (1887-1972) is among the most significant and influential Indian artists of the 20th century. He enjoyed a great deal of respect and fame during his lifetime. His work is still held in high esteem in India and is achieving growing international renown. Roy received formal training at t... Read More
 19 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Article:
Jamini Roy: The First But Forgotten Exhibition
By Satyasri Ukil

This article is reprinted from ‘Art & Deal’, May-June, 2000.

It is proposed to record here, approximately seventy-one years after the event, the details of a one-man show where Jamini Roy presented for the first time... Read More
 19 May 2013 Rare Paintings
JAMINI ROY

Born in 1887 in an obscure Bengali village of the Bankura district in West Bengal, an area especially rich with a folk art tradition, Jamini Roy arrived in Calcutta in 1903 to enroll in the Govt. School of Art. He was the most famous pupil of Abanindranath Tagore, whose contribution t... Read More
 14 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Why are they so expensive??...

Video:
The World's Most Expensive Paintings
BBC Documentary

Art critic Alastair Sooke tracks down the ten most expensive paintings to sell at auction, and investigates the stories behind the astronomic prices art can reach. Gaining access to the glittering world o... Read More
 14 May 2013 Rare Paintings
During Asia Week New York last week, S.H. Raza’s “Village with Church” unfortunately took no bidders at Sotheby’s auction. The painting, which was surrounded by a lot hype and excitement, was estimated to sell for $2.5 million (Rs.12.5 crore). The painting came from the personal collection of the... Read More
 14 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Essay:
Modern Art in India
By Atteqa Ali
Independent Curator

In the mid-twentieth century, India was a new democratic country carved out of the subcontinent and led by the Indian National Congress. During this nascent period of independence, its citizens sought to define its parameters and ... Read More
 13 May 2013 Rare Paintings
"India Nilgiris Toda woman"; from Ootikamund; wearing red and white costume - 1959
By Lily Eversdijk-Smulders
Drawing, Chalk and crayon.

Lily Eversdijk-Smulders (1903-1994), portrait painter and lawyer.
She obtained her degree of Doctor of Law at the University of Leiden, Holland. After few... Read More
 11 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Hindu Temple at Agouree, on the Rover Soane, Bihar
By Thomas Daniell
Print, aquatint
1795

This picturesque scene has a great banyan tree in the foreground, its twisted branches and roots spreading far and wide across the landscape. Through the branches the viewer can see a groupd of Hindu t... Read More
 10 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Opium cultivation scene - 1865
William Simpson

Malwa, India

Watercolour on paper

William Simpson was born in Glasgow in 1823. He worked at a specialist lithographic firm, where he learned the art of lithography, before moving to London and working for the publishing firm William Day and... Read More
 10 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Study of a banyan tree at Mauringa, Assam in pencil, pen and possibly ink and traces of chalk.

Mauringa, India

15 October 1861
De Fabeck, Frederick William Alexander, born 1830 - died 1912

Pencil, pen and ink (?), watercolour , traces of chalk (?) heightened with white

The brothers F... Read More
 10 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Hindu Temple, Duabe near Manpore
William Orme
Pencil and watercolour

William Orme, who was active from about 1795 to 1819, was born in Manchester and was almost certainly the younger brother of Daniel Orme (also born in Manchester), and older brother of Edward Orme. An early watercolour by h... Read More