Raja Ravi Varma

Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) fused European oil technique with Hindu myth and gave modern India its visual vocabulary for the gods. Saraswati, Lakshmi, Damayanti and the heroines of the Puranas appear as living women in silk, modelled with academic realism and lit like Salon portraits. His mass-produced lithographs reached every corner of the subcontinent, which is why these images feel familiar even to viewers seeing them for the first time. Every work is reproduced on museum-grade cotton canvas with archival giclee printing, printed to order and hand-framed in your choice of Gold, Silver, or Charcoal, sized Small through Estate.