If you wish to appreciate art in its best, finest form, head to an exhibition of 98 oleographs by Raja Ravi Varma, who has been credited of being the first modern artist of India. Published in the 1920s, these oleographs were never framed and remained an entire set that depict numerous stories based on the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata.

Oil collective

“Oleographs are lithographs created through a multi-layered process using many colours called chromolithography and they need a temperate cool climate for precise registration of the prints. The litho stones used to print the Ravi Varma prints are a particular type of limestone from the Rhenish Valley, Germany,” says Suresh Sharma of Clark House.