Rao Bahadur Mahadeo Vishwanath Dhurandhar

Private Collection, London
Sotheby’s London, 17 June 1999, lot 221

Rao Bahadur Mahadeo Vishwanath Dhurandhar enrolled at the famed Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay in 1890, studying under the British artist John Griffiths. After graduating, Dhurandhar became a teacher at the school, working there for the rest of his career. Over the course of his life, he depicted a wealth of subjects - from the stories of the Indian mythology to quotidian street scenes of Bombay - in a wide variety of mediums, including painting, postcards, posters, oleographs and murals. The current lot, rendered in delicate watercolor, captures what is arguably Dhurandhar's most prized subject - the everyday people of Maharashtra.