Price: $500.00
Unbound. Black and white photograph. Matted to approximately 7" x 9.5". Framed and glazed. Unexamined out of the frame. Image a bit unevenly sunned, else a very good example of this handsome image. Undated, circa 1940. Inscribed on the bottom of the image to the daughter of American artist Thornton Oakley: "Miss Lansdale Oakley Very best wishes, Uday Shankar." Shankar, the elder brother of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, was as influential to Indian dance as his brother was to classical Indian music. Born of a Bengali family, he studied at the Royal College of Art in London. He incorporated classical and Indian folk dance to create ballets based on Hindu themes for Anna Pavlova, and during the 1930s toured with his own dance troupe. He popularized Indian dance in both the west and India itself, and is pictured on a 1978 Indian postage stamp.
Item #96516
