Kadambari Playing Sitar – Raja Ravi Verma

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Raja Ravi Varma painted Kadambari at the height of his powers — and you can feel it. He was the first Indian artist to master European oil technique and turn it entirely toward Indian subjects, Indian women, Indian feeling. The result was a new visual language that a whole subcontinent recognised as its own.

On BAC’s large-format canvas, this is not nostalgia. It’s a standard that Indian art set for itself and never forgot.