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Love's Offering by M.D. Natesan. Bengal School of Art. Circa early 20th century, before 1915. Signed in lower left corner. Poem by unknown author on reverse, partially cropped. Leaf cm bycm; image cm by cm.

M.D. Natesan was an associate of Raja Ravi Varma, Rabindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose at Calcutta's Bengal school of Art from the beginning of the 20th century. They were responsible for the creation of a Neo-Traditional or Revivalist style of painting under the initial guidance of E.B. Havell, its British Pricipal. Natesan's work - alongside others by Varma, Tagore and Bose - has been published in A Portfolio of Mahabharata Paintings by P Lal, , Writers Workshop, Kolkata, 2001[ISBN: 81-7595-900-2].