Omar Khayyam Series 02 - M V Dhurandhar - Indian Painting

Omar Khayyam Series 02 A Indian Masters Artwork By M V Dhurandhar.     Mahadev Vishwanath Dhurandhar was noted Indian painter from the British colonial era and postcard artist.His illustrations of women of that era doing their daily chores are especially popular.     Madhav V. Dhurandhar was born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. He went to Rajaram High School, Kolhapur. He was accepted into J.J. School of Art, Bombay in 1890, and was student of the artist John Griffiths.He was appointed Inspector of Drawing and Craft in 1918 and served in that position until 1931. He was the Vice-Principal for two years before retiring.

The idea of a retrospective on well-known artist M. V. Dhurandhar was first mooted in the sesquicentennial year of his birth (1867). The artist, who died in 1944, was hugely successful in his lifetime and his works covered all known genres of realistic art.   Portraits, landscapes, episodes from history and mythology, as well as mappings of social life, rendered by way of oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, sketches, and commercially popular as posters, postcards, book covers and illustrations, as well as oleographs.   A master of anatomical studies, he remained unmoved in the face of experimentation, refusing to budge from the practice he had trained in, and which he considered the purest form of art making.