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Sairandhri
Raja Ravi Varma1891
The Ganesh Shivaswamy Foundation
Bengaluru, India
Draupadi lives incognito with the name Sairandhri in the Court of the King of Virata and his wife Sudeshna. Sudeshna's brother, Keechaka is enamoured about Sairandhri and Sudeshna agrees to send Sairandhri to him under the pretext of sending him a jar of wine. In 1891, Raja Ravi Varma painted Sairandhri reluctantly carrying a liquor jar which won a medal at the Bombay Fine Arts Society.
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- Title: Sairandhri
- Creator: Raja Ravi Varma
- Date Created: 1891
- Location: India
- Physical Dimensions: 104 x 73.5 cms
- Type: Painting
- Original Source: Directorate of Museums and Archaeology, Government of Maharashtra; Shree Bhavani Museum and Library, Aundh, District Satara, Maharashtra.
- Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Creator's Lifetime: 1848-04-29/1906-10-02
- Creator's Biography: Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was a prolific Indian artist who is recognized for his resorting to the academic realistic style of painting. His portraits of English and Indian royalty and aristocracy were well received. His paintings on Hindu religious and mythological subjects and paintings from classical and literary sources were highly sought after even during his lifetime. He painted several copies of his works and this demand led to the suggestion to have his paintings printed in the form of oleographs. The Ravi Varma Fine Art Lithographic Press was established in Bombay (now Mumbai) and commenced operations in 1894. Many of Ravi Varma's paintings were printed as chromolithographs at this Press. These chromolithographs would have a tremendous impact on religion, society and aesthetics. They went on to democratize art leading to immortalize Ravi Varma in the minds of the people of the Indian subcontinent.
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