As a nature lover I could not help being moved by my visit to Manohar Devadoss's exhibition. There were about 32 paintings featured there, most of them painted in the last three years. The paintings were in a realistic style. The colours and proportions were so carefully done that the paintings transported the viewer into another world. The stags under a bent tree and butterflies in blue surrounded by bunches of spring flowers walked away with the honours easily --- though one must say it is a matter of taste only and that all paintings were equally evocative and lovely. Just a day after the exhibition started all painting were sold out, in fact even when I reached the hall many of them had a red dot stuck on them to indicate that they had been sold.
The painter suffers from severe impairment of vision. In his own words, his vision was diminishing fast and if I wished to ask for a replica of he butterflies I'd have to make it soon.... I would have committed myself at once, if not for the budget but nevertheless timidly summoned up the courage to ask whether He could make a proportionately smaller one at a tenth of the price!
The proceeds are going to charity - with sankara nethralaya and arvind eye hospital being the beneficiaries.
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