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Posted on: 2 June 2013
Album of popular prints mounted on cloth pages. Colour lithograph, lettered, inscribed and numbered 23. In this illustration of a narrative from the Mahabharata, Abhimanyu bids farewell to his wife Uttara. He is leaving for the Kurukshetra war.
Printed by: Chore Bagan Art Studio
Date: 1895 (circa)
Printed in: Calcutta
© Trustees of the British Museum
oh!my what a splendid form of art..The colours are filled with tradition and beauty.....How is this form of art actually done?The grief on their faces are so realistic.....
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Chore Bagan chromolothos - Not much known about the studio apart from its address. Christopher Pinney (Author of excellent book - Photos of the Gods, Reaktion books , UK, 2004) speculates that it may have been set up by an artist, Amar Nath Shaha and that most of Chore Bagan art was inspired by Girish Chandra Ghosh's plays and European/Italianate sceneries used on his sets. Any one knows more ? Most likely, it was Chore Bagan & Calcutta Art Studio litho & chromolitho prints which Ramakrishna Paramhans endorsed at the merchant Nanda Bose's Baghbazaar home on 28 July, 1885 - " I am very happy today. It is grand ! You are a real hindu. You have these pictures instead of English ones. I am surprised !" . Nanda replied that he had a collection of english ones too. ......Great to see these with the trustees of British museum now ....
Abhimanyu Ar fira aseni.