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Kasthuri Sreenivasan art Gallery, Coimbatore

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Kasthuri Sreenivasan art Gallery located at Peelamedu, Coimbatore, India. It is a cultural centre with unique collections of paintings, sculptures, terracotta earthenware. Paintings of Gond tribes, Warali, Madhubani paintings. There are paintings and sculptures dated 11th century to modern arts and even 5000 years old paintings are treasured in the gallery. Paintings like Bazh (Mughal) 1650, Sohni swimming to meet Mahinwal (1790), Lady yearning for her love (1780), Prince Dara Shikoh and Rana Dil (1658), Kalamkari fabric painting (3000 years old), birds paintings of Mughal period etc. Sculptures like Nataraja statue (1800), Hindu goddess (500BC), Horse rider (1800), Jalli kattu sculpture, Remesse, the Egyptian ruler (1370BC), Nigerian figure (18th C), Osiris Greek goddess (500BC) etc. Paintings done by Ravi Varma, Barbara Sreenivasan, Rabindranath Tagore and painters of different parts of world. Terracotta head of Gupta period, terracotta bowl, Ivory Measure (padi) and