Shakuntala Removing a Thorn by Raja Ravi Varma Print (18×24)

Fine Art Reproduction Print (Museum-Grade Archival Print) Artist / Date Raja Ravi Varma | 1898 | Oil on Canvas Key Features This supremely graceful and narratively ingenious composition presents Raja Ravi Varma's 1898 masterwork Shakuntala...
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Shakuntala Removing a Thorn by Raja Ravi Varma Print (18×24)

Shakuntala Removing a Thorn by Raja Ravi Varma Print (18×24)

Rs.2,100.00

Shakuntala Removing a Thorn 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 | 1898 | Oil on Canvas

Key Features

This supremely graceful and narratively ingenious composition presents Raja Ravi Varma's 1898 masterwork Shakuntala Removing a Thorn from Her Foot - widely regarded as one of the finest single figure paintings in the entire Indian academic tradition and the work that established Ravi Varma's reputation as the most technically accomplished Indian painter of his generation. The painting depicts the famous moment from Kalidasa's Abhijnana Shakuntalam - Shakuntala pretending to have stepped on a thorn so that she may pause and turn back for one last lingering look at King Dushyanta, whom she has just fallen in love with and from whom she must now return to the hermitage. Her two companions Anasuya and Priyamvada walk beside her - one carrying a basket of red flowers, the other supporting Shakuntala's back with a hand that communicates the perfect knowing awareness of a friend who understands exactly what this thorn is and what it is not.

Ravi Varma's compositional genius in this work lies entirely in the quality of Shakuntala's turned profile - her body moving in the direction of the hermitage while her gaze turns back toward Dushyanta with an expression that is simultaneously innocent and completely knowing, spontaneous and entirely deliberate, the most perfect visual rendering of the state that Sanskrit aesthetics calls Shringara in its most refined and most precisely observed moment. The warm ochre and terracotta palette, the lush forest background, and the naturalistic rendering of all three figures in natural movement give the composition the quality of something glimpsed rather than posed - a moment caught rather than constructed.

Museum-Grade Poster Details

  • Size: 18 × 24 inches
  • Paper: 350 GSM archival matte paper
  • Print Quality: High-resolution reproduction preserving the warm ochre palette, Shakuntala's luminous turned profile, the natural movement of all three figures, and the full atmospheric quality of the forest landscape
  • Finish: Non-glare museum matte finish
  • Ideal For: Collectors of Raja Ravi Varma works, lovers of classical Indian figurative painting, admirers of Kalidasa's Shakuntala, home and gallery spaces, and anyone drawn to this most perfectly observed moment of love's first recognition in the entire Indian aesthetic tradition

Why You'll Love It

Technically flawless and emotionally precise - Ravi Varma's Shakuntala Removing a Thorn is the most perfectly composed of all his figure paintings, the work that captures love's first recognition not in the drama of declaration but in the small, completely human, entirely revealing gesture of a girl who cannot quite make herself walk away.

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Bring home Shakuntala Removing a Thorn - Raja Ravi Varma's 1898 masterwork of love's first glance, available as an 18 × 24 inch museum-grade archival print, with framed and unframed options, exclusively at The Soma Store.

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