Important Notice

Born in Baler, Rajasthan in 1906, Ramgopal Vijaivargiya found his inspiration from the Bengal School of painting though he remained wholly unattached to any particular school of Indian art. In the foreword to The Art of Vijaivargiya, Ram Chandra Tandan wrote: “The Art of Vijaivargiya is noteworthy not only because of its actual achievement, which is considerable, but also because of its great promise: for the artist is still young and... Born in Baler, Rajasthan in 1906, Ramgopal Vijaivargiya found his inspiration from the Bengal School of painting though he remained wholly unattached to any particular school of Indian art. In the foreword to The Art of Vijaivargiya, Ram Chandra Tandan wrote: “The Art of Vijaivargiya is noteworthy not only because of its actual achievement, which is considerable, but also because of its great promise: for the artist is still young and full of confidence in himself.” (R C Tandan, The Art of Vijaivargiya, Allahabad: Allahabad Block Works, 1935, p. 4) At the time, Ramgopal Vijaivargiya was 30, and had sold nearly 1000 paintings in the small space of the Indian art world of the 1930s. R C Tandan noticed his talent and printed an album of a few select works for the Hindustani Academy in Allahabad, which were later displayed at exhibitions in Calcutta and Bombay. Vijaivargiya later headed the Rajasthan Kala Mandir and Rajasthan School of Art from 1945 to 1966, and went on to win several state and national awards.

Vijaivargiya had a “strong individualistic sense” as a student of Hindu mythology, and his themes “...have a wide range, grading from the spiritual at one end to the almost erotic at the other, all characterised in their execution by a certain suppleness and grace of lines.” (Tandan, p. 4)

The artist passed away in 2003.

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