Collection
Indian Masterworks: Court Miniatures, Devotional Art & the Bengal School
Four centuries of Indian painting, from the hill-court workshops of the Punjab to the studios of colonial Calcutta. Pahari and Rajput miniatures in opaque watercolour, where the Ramayana and the Devi Mahatmya unfold in jewelled colour. The oleographs of Raja Ravi Varma, who put the Hindu pantheon into every Indian home. The wash paintings of Abanindranath and Gaganendranath Tagore, who built a modern Indian art on Mughal and Japanese foundations. And the bold, cheap, brilliant Kalighat pats sold to pilgrims outside the Kali temple.
Devotional, courtly, and quietly radical by turns.
