RBSI - Rabindranath Tagore: Poet and Painter, V&A, Review The Telegraph - 13 Dec 2011 Sameer Rahim reviews an exhibition of paintings by the Bengali poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore at the Victoria and

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Rabindranath Tagore: Poet and Painter, V&A, Review
The Telegraph - 13 Dec 2011

Sameer Rahim reviews an exhibition of paintings by the Bengali poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The poet, novelist and songwriter Rabindranath Tagore was the renaissance man of early 20th-century India. Not only was he the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1913), his songs were used as the national anthems of two countries: independent India and Bangladesh.

Tagore, though, is less well known for his paintings, which is something the V&A’s new exhibition hopes to rectify. He had no formal training and only started drawing in his sixties. The images emerged from revision marks on his manuscripts that he distorted into animal shapes. His early paintings are slightly crude renderings of fantastical animals – a sad-eyed fox or dog, a stretching leopard with a reptile’s head – the highlight of which is an enchanting painting of two metal birds with what looks like a dervish.

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On the Tagore trail Avantika Bhuyan / New Delhi December 24, 2011 Business Standard Rabindranath’s works and his fans are known to turn up at the most unexpected of places. It isn’t everyday that the Sotheby’s auction house in New York comes across an unpublished notebook belonging to Rabindranath Tagore. Dating back to 1928, this previously unknown autographed manuscript proved to be an extremely rare find. And the timing of the discovery was perfect; the poet’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations were in full swing around the world. This discovery added to the flavour of the festivities. “Tagore had gifted this manuscript to a friend who had supported his university at Santiniketan. This friend and patron then shifted to the United States. Since it was the 150th birth anniversary of Tagore, his family thought that it was the right time to put this rare piece of Tagore memorabilia up for sale,” says Maithili Parekh, director (India), Sotheby’s. Read more : http://business-standard.com/india/news/ontagore-trail/459530/

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