Item #CL198-132 Ladies And Gentlemen [Rabindranath Tagore]. Robert Emerson Curtis, 1898–1996 Aust.
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Ladies And Gentlemen [Rabindranath Tagore]

1952. Pen and ink, captioned, dated and signed lower left, 16.1 x 25.2cm. Minor creases and foxing.

Caption continues “The speaker tonight will be our great leader Rabindranath Tagore, who’s [sic] message is ‘transmitted’ throughout the world. He is introduced by Mrs Annie Bessant of India. Sketched at a Theosophical Meeting, Sydney.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was “a polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries…he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.” Ref: Wiki.

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Item #CL198-132

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