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Madhubani paintings by Nitu Sinha & Dolly Sinha
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Aug 2010

Madhubani painting by Nitu Sinha and Dolly Sinha - Ganesha
Madhubani painting by Nitu Sinha and Dolly Sinha - Ardhnareshwari
Madhubani painting by Nitu Sinha and Dolly Sinha - Shiv Parvati
Madhubani painting by Nitu Sinha and Dolly Sinha - Krishna
Madhubani painting by Nitu Sinha and Dolly Sinha - Krishna in Vatika
Madhubani painting by Nitu Sinha and Dolly Sinha - Krishna with gopika
Madhubani painting by Nitu Sinha and Dolly Sinha - Maa Swarswati
Madhubani painting by Nitu Sinha and Dolly Sinha - Rama Sita
Madhubani painting by Nitu Sinha and Dolly Sinha - Tree
Madhubani painting by Nitu Sinha and Dolly Sinha - Fish



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Mithila painting, as a domestic ritual activity, was unknown to the outside world until the massive Bihar earthquake of 1934. House walls had tumbled down, and the British colonial officer in Madhubani District, William G. Archer, inspecting the damage "discovered" the paintings on the newly exposed interior walls of homes. Archer - later to become the South Asia Curator at London's Victoria and Albert Museum - was stunned by the beauty of the paintings and similarities to the work of modern Western artists like Klee, Miro, and Picasso. During the 1930s he took black and white photos of some of these paintings, the earliest images we have of them. Then in a 1949 article in the Indian art journal, Marg, he brought the wall paintings to public attention.

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