Tree of Life (Madhubani Painting)
b) Signed in Devnagari (lower left and centre)
Acrylic and natural pigment on handmade paper (each)
a) 30.25 x 22.5 in | 77 x 57 cm
b) 30 x 23 in | 6.5 x 58.2 cm
(Set of two)
Ram Kumari is the daughter of the famous Godhna artist Late Chano Devi. She practices Godhna form of Madhubani painting. She learnt painting from her mother in village Jitwarpur of Madhubani District in Bihar. Her paintings are in the collection of the Mithila Museum in Japan.
Madhubani painting, also known as Mithila painting, is rich in art symbolism with a rare simplicity and beauty. Associated with Sita's home in Mithila (Bihar), stories of Ramayana are central to this form of painting. The Krishna lore with its inescapable romance has left its marks as well. Activities of life, ornate floral and geometric patterns, with inevitable Hinduicons forms, its distinctive style.
(Sathyapal (ed.), Native Art of India, Kerala: Anaswara offset Pvt.Ltd. Kochi, 2011, p. 218)