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Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich

Author name
Река Чандра. Этюд
1931
tempera on paper
22.8 × 30.8 cm
1.0075
Signatures, notes:

Монограмма справа внизу

Location of the works
Nicholas Roerich Museum. New York

Svetoslav Roerich (by descent); Nicholas Roerich Museum (1984)

The Chandra River. This sketch, apparently, was painted in the summer camp of the Urusvati expedition in Lahul. The expedition's camps were often located in some proximity to the Chandra River. The artist especially liked to depict the time of sunset or sunrise, when the pink rays of the sun painted the sky, the mountains and everything around. The Chandra River is one of the main rivers of Lahul; in its vicinity there are many sites that Nikolay Roerich visited and later depicted in his paintings. After the confluence with the river Bhaga, in its lower reaches, Chandra becomes Chandra Bhaga (The Grace of the Moon), or Chenab – one of the largest waterways in India and Pakistan.