Very rare signed postcard photograph ca. 1920s of the once celebrated child prodigy who could play the violin and the piano and who became a global phenomenon. The Advocate of India, the Anglo-Indian newspaper of Bombay, had called him ‘Indian Paganini’ and he was one of the few exponents of Western classical music in India at the time and toured internationally, including the United Kingdom and the United States, in 1906. National poet Subramania Bharathiyar praised him as a matter of pride for India. Despite his early fame, little information survived regarding his later life or subsequent years. This is the only signed photograph of him we have ever encountered. A little scraped and toned, overall fine. 3.5 x 5.5 inches; 8.9 x 14 cm.
An enthusiastic and detailed if still lamentably racist review of one of his 1912 recitals may be read in The Strad, Volumes 23-24 - Page 47 here.
Very rare signed postcard photograph ca. 1920s of the once celebrated child prodigy who could play the violin and the piano and who became a global phenomenon. The Advocate of India, the Anglo-Indian newspaper of Bombay, had called him ‘Indian Paganini’ and he was one of the few exponents of Western classical music in India at the time and toured internationally, including the United Kingdom and the United States, in 1906. National poet Subramania Bharathiyar praised him as a matter of pride for India. Despite his early fame, little information survived regarding his later life or subsequent years. This is the only signed photograph of him we have ever encountered. A little scraped and toned, overall fine. 3.5 x 5.5 inches; 8.9 x 14 cm.
An enthusiastic and detailed if still lamentably racist review of one of his 1912 recitals may be read in The Strad, Volumes 23-24 - Page 47 here.