RAJA RAVI VARMA | UNTITLED (SWAMI VISHVAMITRA IN MEDITATION)

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
RAJA RAVI VARMA
1848 - 1906
UNTITLED (SWAMI VISHVAMITRA IN MEDITATION)

Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 'Ravi Varma / 1897' lower left
30 ¼ x 24 in. (76.8 x 60.9 cm.)
Painted in 1897

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Provenance:
Collection of Fritz Schleicher

Thence by descent to Mrs. Lotti Schleicher Singh

Acquired by a private collector in Denmark

Sothebys London, 8 June 2000, lot 110

Fritz Schleicher was a German printer from Berlin, who managed the 'Ravi Varma Oleographic and Chromolithographic Printing Workshop' and later bought the printing press from Ravi Varma in 1903.