Water carriers cine - Early 1959

Today I am adding another extract from the 1959 cine this on shows three ladies filling their very large brass water pots from an outside tap.

Then a 45 second cine extract which is 22.8 Megabytes in size.

Dhobi cine taken in 1959

More extracts from my family cine film taken in 1959.  There are two different clips of dhobis at work one taken at a stream and the second at the beach.

These scenes match several paintings painted by G D Paulraj.

Covered cart from 1959 cine

I have captured a very small clip of a covered cart from a family cine film taken in Vizag in India in 1959.

The cine clip has been converted to mp4 format and follows below, it is 9.0Mbytes in size and lasts 16 seconds.

Scenes like this are becoming less common.

G D Paulraj - Notebook 11

This must be a continuation of page 10 as it is for the same date and location.  It reads along the side of the page "Sent to Chandigarh on 28-2-1959".

No 7. SOLD Balcony Rs 125/-

No 6. SOLD Rest Rs 115/-

No 13 Upstairs Rs 125/-

No 15. Basket Seller Rs 150/-

No 3. SOLD Dust & Light Rs 125/-

No 8. SOLD Bazaar Street Rs 115/-

No 14. Fisher woman Rs 125/-

G D Paulraj - Notebook 10

Another page from Paul's notebooks, this one is dated 28 February 1959 and says "sent to Chandigarh."

No. 4 Distant well Rs 115/-

No. 2 Bazaar corner Rs 115/-

No. 1Shifting the wheat Rs 115/-

No. 5 Farmers house Rs 95/-

No. 12 Evening light Rs 115/- (marked as sold)

No. 9 The old house Rs 95/- (marked as sold)

No. 10 Homeward bound Rs 95/-

No. 11 Under canvas shade Rs 95/- (marked as sold)

G D Paulraj - Newborn

I was recently contacted by a lady from the USA who owns three paintings by Paulraj which she has inherited from her aunt who spent several years working in Bombay in India around 1958 to 1961.  While she was there she acquired the three paintings.  It is not known if she got them directly from Paul or mail order or from an exhibition.  The first is a rainy day showing a farmer carrying the newborn calf back home.  The colours seem to have faded a bit on the painting.

It is a nice painting but monsoon paintings are not my favourite as I much prefer blue sky.  Many thanks to Dot for sharing these paintings.

G D Paulraj- Refreshments under the Banyan Trees

Today I am adding another painting currently for sale in the UK on Ebay.  The seller "infanteyes" has agreed for me to add details of the painting to the blog.  THe painting shows a refreshment stall on a road in the shade of a row of Banyan trees.  The painting is listed on Ebay under item number 270854748376 with a starting price of £400.00 with postage of £30.00.

I understand the painting is being sold framed and it has an interesting label on the reverse.  This has Paul Raj's address as being Diamond Cottage, in Kodaikanal.  It shows the price is rupees as being R/s. 95, this could make it quite and early painting with the price being so low, I guess it could be late 1950,s.  I quite like this painting and it reminds me of several that I own myself. (I have no room on my walls for any more, what a shame.)  You can see a lady taking a drink from coconut.  The auction ends on 26 November so if you want to bid you will need to be quick.

Thanks to "infanteyes " for letting me add this to the blog.