Golden Yellow Wall Art

Golden Yellow — 11 museum-grade prints in this palette. Kalighat Pat grew up in 19th-century Kolkata, painted by migrant patua (chitrakar) scroll-painters who settled near the Kalighat Kali temple and sold quick watercolour souvenirs to pilgrims. Working on mill-made paper with a bold single black brush outline and soft 'boneless' shaded strokes on a plain ground, they painted gods and goddesses alongside what is often called India's first modern social satire — sharp, affectionate caricatures of the colonial 'babu' and the hypocrisies of Calcutta life. Narasimha is the man-lion avatar of Vishnu, who burst from a pillar to slay the demon Hiranyakashipu at dusk on a threshold — neither man nor beast, neither day nor night, neither inside nor out — to defeat the boon that made the demon invincible, and so to protect his devotee, the child Prahlada. Worshipped with the goddess Lakshmi as Lakshmi Narasimha, he is a major deity across Telangana and Andhra. Cheriyal scrolls come from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community for travelling balladeers who sang the Ramayana episode by episode. The Ashoka Vatika is the grove in Ravana's Lanka where Sita was held captive, watched over by rakshasi guards; Hanuman, sent to find her, hides in the trees and reveals himself with Rama's ring — the scene that turns the epic toward rescue.

Updated 22 Jun 2026