CHHOTABHAI PURSHOTTAM PATEL & CO.
Lithograph on Paper
Circa
1940
Size (cms)
32.5 X 45.4
Artist
Raghubir Mulgaonkar
Raghuvir Mulgaonkar (1918–1976) was a realist painter. In his 30-year career, he painted 7,000 paintings on various subjects, including mythology and social issues. He learned to paint from S.M. Pandit. He used to paint three to four paintings a day and earned the label “the artist whose brush never dried.”
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Publisher
Chhotabhai Purushottam Patel & Co., Calcutta.
Printer
Not Available
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The poster depicts Shakuntala seated on a rock, watching her son Bharat play fearlessly with lion cubs in a lush forest. The scene, drawn from the Mahabharat, symbolises Bharat's future as a brave and noble ruler.
Chhotabhai Purshottam Patel and Co., established on January 1, 1935, in Calcutta, was a key player in India's mid-20th-century beedi industry. These hand-rolled cigarettes made from tendu leaves gained popularity for being a low-cost alternative to regular cigarettes, especially among the working class.
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