Dasharatha Kaikeyi Vilap by Raja Ravi Varma Print (18×24)

Fine Art Reproduction Print (Museum-Grade Archival Print) Artist / Date Raja Ravi Varma Press | circa 1910 | Oleograph on Paper | Karla-Lonavala, Maharashtra Key Features This dramatically stark and morally devastating composition presents Dasharatha...
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Dasharatha Kaikeyi Vilap by Raja Ravi Varma Print (18×24)

Dasharatha Kaikeyi Vilap by Raja Ravi Varma Print (18×24)

Rs.2,100.00

Dasharatha Kaikeyi Vilap by Raja Ravi Varma Print (18×24)

Rs.2,100.00
Frame style: Unframed
Fine Art Reproduction Print (Museum-Grade Archival Print)
Artist / Date Raja Ravi Varma Press | circa 1910 | Oleograph on Paper | Karla-Lonavala, Maharashtra

Key Features

This dramatically stark and morally devastating composition presents Dasharatha Kaikeyi Vilap - the lamentation scene between King Dasharatha and Queen Kaikeyi - one of the most psychologically concentrated and most compositionally bold of all the Ravi Varma Press's Ramayana oleographs. The painting depicts the pivotal moment when Dasharatha discovers Kaikeyi prostrate on the floor of the sulking room - her jewels removed, her hair unbound, her blue sari pooled around her on the bare marble tiles - having followed Manthara's precise instructions to secure the two boons that will send Rama into exile and place Bharata on the throne of Ayodhya. Dasharatha stands over her in the posture of a man whose world is collapsing - his royal regalia and peacock-feathered crown the visual measure of everything that Kaikeyi's calculated performance of grief is about to unmake.

The composition's most striking quality is its spatial austerity - unlike the richly populated and architecturally elaborate compositions of the Ram Darbar and Ramapanchayan series, this scene is rendered in an almost empty room with a single doorway opening onto the palace exterior. The bare marble floor, the deliberately stripped domestic space, and the two solitary figures create an atmosphere of moral isolation that is the most complete visual equivalent of the Ramayana's most catastrophic domestic moment. Ravi Varma's academic training is fully deployed in the rendering of Kaikeyi's prostrate form - the figure in full horizontal extension across the composition's lower half, her unbound hair the most eloquent element of the entire image, suggesting simultaneously genuine grief and calculated performance in the same ambiguous gesture.

The scene depicts the precise moment that sets the entire subsequent Ramayana in motion - the fulcrum on which the epic turns, the domestic crisis that becomes a cosmic opportunity for the revelation of Rama's dharmic nature.

Museum-Grade Poster Details

  • Size: 18 × 24 inches
  • Paper: 350 GSM archival matte paper
  • Print Quality: High-resolution reproduction preserving the spatial austerity of the composition, the rich royal regalia of Dasharatha, the flowing blue of Kaikeyi's sari, and the full atmospheric depth of the bare marble interior
  • Finish: Non-glare museum matte finish
  • Ideal For: Ramayana devotees, collectors of Ravi Varma Press registered oleographs, lovers of Indian narrative painting, home and gallery spaces, and anyone drawn to this most dramatically concentrated moment in the entire Ramayana epic

Why You'll Love It

Spatially austere and morally devastating - Ravi Varma's Dasharatha Kaikeyi Vilap is the most dramatically concentrated of all his Ramayana compositions, the painting that shows the entire epic's catastrophe contained in a single room, a prostrate queen, and a king whose world ends in the moment he opens the door.

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Bring home Dasharatha Kaikeyi Vilap - the Ravi Varma Press's circa 1910 masterwork of the Ramayana's pivotal domestic crisis, available as an 18 × 24 inch museum-grade archival print, with framed and unframed options, exclusively at The Soma Store.

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