“ Coquettish Maid Servant”
Print size :- 4.5 X 3.5 inch { court size}
Print year :- 1910
USP:- very rare unseen subject.
One of rarest of Rare post cards story series These fascinating set of ten post cards were printed at Lakshmi Art Printing Works which belonged to Dadasaheb Phalke, regarded as the father of Indian cinema. These narrative postcards showcase the type of storytelling for which Phalke was famous.
His wit was genial but emphatic, and this is reinforced in his compositions. Most of these designs are planar, with figures placed frontally or in profile before stratified backgrounds.
You can see this in the narrative postcards titled ‘Coquettish Maid Servant‘. It features titles in English, Gujarati and Hindi so that all communities in Bombay could understand this story of a pretty young maid who comes to work in a middle-class home.
Details hereunder :-
Most of dhurandhar post card was based on native Mumbai people doing thier daily chores..of day to day life. As per his signature style it’s a movement that has been captured of that contemporary era.
This is one of the few postcards which seems to have been survived , dated back 1910 by the painter MV Dhurandhar beneath his signature. It’s very rare to find dhurandhar post cards in this size.
About artist:-
MV Dhurandhar was looking to experiment with his art and makes full use of opportunities available for a painter like him by making commissioned illustrations for books, periodicals such as Gujarati magazines Amar and Bhoot, calendars, advertisements, postcards and so on.
Becomes extremely popular for his postcards at a time of postcard explosion in the West. Ethnographic postcards are chiefly used by the British to write home and succeed the earlier ethnographic paintings. His postcard painting Ayah is widely pirated. Phenomenon of outdoor painting takes root in western part of India and outflow of this kind of work becomes prodigious from the late nineteenth century; Dhurandhar is one of the leading artists of the genre besides Abalall Rahiman, N. R. Sardesai and S. L. Haldhar & DK Mahatre.
