Admirer of Paul Raj Paintings

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Paul was born in Kodaikanal on 22 September 1914 and died on 2 October 1979. G D Arulraj was born in 1925 and died in June 1972 while visiting India. Arul worked at Laguna Beach in the 60's and 1970's. G D Thyagaraj might have been born in 1922 and I am told that he probably died sometime before 1981. He moved to northern India as a young man. I lived in India as a child and spent a lot of time in Calcutta. My mother purchased several paintings directly from Paul Raj while living in Madras and this got me interested in his works. I then discovered he had two brothers Arul Raj and Thyaga Raj who were both fantastic artists. I could not find much information on the internet so decided to set up my own blog. Subsequently a Facebook tribute site has also been created to the memory of the three brothers. Contact me at: rajbrothers@hotmail.co.uk

Saturday 26 June 2010

The Raj Brothers

I came across an interesting article by a gentleman called Sajith Kumar called "Showing artists the moolah" which discusses the works of the three Raj brothers in an exhibition in Calcutta 50 years ago.

Some of the text follows:  "In the same catalogue, the works of artists are listed along with the prices of their works. For instance, we can cite the instance of the well-known watercolourists of the G D Raj family — Arul, Paul and Thyagaraj. G D Arul Raj’s four paintings and Thyagaraj’s were each priced at a meager Rs 35. G D Paul Raj fared better, with 10 works priced between Rs 125 and Rs 175."

You can find the article in full at. "Showing artists the moolah"

Today I am adding a photo of a painting by G D Paulraj it shows two people resting in the shade of a large tree.  I was sent this photo by my friend Kashinath.

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2 comments:

  1. Arti2 July 2010 at 06:04

    Indian art has come a long way since then!Thanks for sharing this beautiful work.

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  2. SKIZO18 July 2010 at 15:42

    Exquisite
    Work

    good
    sources
    of
    Inspiration

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