Osian's Auction Catalogue Creative India Series 1 Bengal | December 2011

1780 1800 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1910 1920 1925 1930 1935 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 2000 r amgopal v iJaiWargiya 1905 – 4 May 2003 Draupadi and the Five Pandavas Watercolour and gouache on paper, Late 1930s / Early 1940s Signed in Devanagari ‘Ramgopal Vijaiwargiya c.r. 20.2 x 27.3 in (51.3 x 69.3 cm) Condition Water stains at lower right edge, a small tear c.r. Provenance Consigned by Mumbai-based collector who had purchased it from the Kito & Jane de Boer Collection in auction at Osian’s (24 November 2006). ` 2,400,000 – 3,600,000 US$ 48,000 – 72,000 41 Creative India BENGaL | Nandalal Bose & the Bengal school 99 98 ‘Vijaiwargiya is best known for his Tagore School paintings with their typical Ajanta characteristics gracefully curving bodies, softly smiling mouths, half-closed, doe- like eyes, thin sinuous arms and long tapering fingers. This style was his forte... His early work in the Tagore style was mostly imaginative picturisation of the lyrics in Jaidev’s Gita Govind, the couplets of Omar Khayyam, the poems of Kalidasa, the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics, tales from the Jatakas and musical modes of Indian classical music. His boyhood schooling in Sanskrit, Urdu and Persian stood him in good stead in interpreting these works.’ Dr. Manohar Prabhakar rpt. in ‘Ram Gopal Vijaiwargiya’, LKA 1988.