Varanasi India

Artist/Maker and role
Lionel Lindsay (b.1874, d.1961): Artist
Production date
Circa 1930
About this object
Towards the end of 1929 Lionel and Jean Lindsay travelled to India. In Lindsay's watercolours of India he painted the dry landscape and jewel-like tones of Mogul India. Many of the palaces alongside the sacred Ganges River, creating as they did, a back drop for the drama of life in minutae on the river bank, capture the splendid power of old India.
Joanna Mendelssohn, The Art of Sir Lionel Lindsay, Vol II etchings part A p.155
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Object detail

Media
Watercolour on paper
Measurements
27.5 x 38.5 cm (window), 53 x 62.5cm (frame)
Signature & date
Signed in paint l.r.corner
Credit line
Donated under the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts program by Max and Nola Tegel in 2016.
Artist/Maker
Accession number
2016.208

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