Printmaking
The press that put gods on every wall
How Ravi Varma’s oleographs reached homes no painting ever had.
Unfinished
Amrita Sher-Gil, The Last Unfinished Painting
Left unfinished. She died that December, aged 28.
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Your first work
Guide soonBuy what you'd still want on your wall in twenty years. The rest is homework.
- Look at a lot before you buy anythingMuseums, galleries, art schools' degree shows.
- Know original from printLook closely: paint has texture, most prints show dots. Ask which edition.
- Ask for the paperworkA bill, the artist's name, where it came from.
- Start with paperDrawings, prints and watercolours. A gentler start.
Stories
More soonHow to look
Turn the painting over
Labels, stamps and stretcher marks: the back often says more than the front.
Kalighat
Souvenirs, now in museums
What pilgrims carried home from Calcutta.
Where to see it
Galleries, fairs and events soonKiran Nadar Museum of ArtNew Delhi
Museum of Art & PhotographyBengaluru
National Gallery of Modern ArtNew Delhi · Mumbai · Bengaluru
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu SangrahalayaMumbai
Indian MuseumKolkata
Salar Jung MuseumHyderabad
Kinds of Indian art
MughalRajputPahariCompany schoolKalighatTanjorePichwaiMadhubaniGondWarliBengal SchoolProgressivesBaroda SchoolContemporaryPrintsPhotography
Artists
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Abanindranath Tagore
Akbar Padamsee
Amrita Sher-Gil
Arpita Singh
Bhupen Khakhar
F N Souza
Ganesh Pyne
Jamini Roy
K G Subramanyan
M F Husain
Nandalal Bose
Raja Ravi Varma
Ram Kumar
S H Raza
Tyeb Mehta
V S Gaitonde
Akbar Padamsee
Amrita Sher-Gil
Arpita Singh
Bhupen Khakhar
F N Souza
Ganesh Pyne
Jamini Roy
K G Subramanyan
M F Husain
Nandalal Bose
Raja Ravi Varma
Ram Kumar
S H Raza
Tyeb Mehta
V S Gaitonde
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The Record
One letter a week. A work, a story, a question answered.
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