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Baua Devi (b. 1945)

Jitwarpur cosmological painter celebrated for Nag-Kanya serpent deities and sixty years of fine double-line Mithila narrative brushwork.

Baua Devi receiving the Padma Shri for Mithila painting

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Baua Devi receiving the Padma Shri for Mithila painting
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Practising in Jitwarpur village, Madhubani district, Bihar since adolescence, Baua Devi brought primordial serpent-goddess (Nag-Kanya) and solar-lunar creation cycles into large-format Mithila painting and was selected for the landmark 1989 Magiciens de la Terre exhibition at Centre Pompidou in Paris. 1

She received the National Handicrafts Award in 1984 and the Padma Shri in 2017 for sustaining women's painting cooperatives in Mithila. 1

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Madhubani (Mithila) Ritual & Narrative Painting
Jitwarpur, Madhubani, Bihar, India · Painting
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Baua Devi and Contemporary Mithila Painting of JitwarpurMinistry of Textiles / Padma Awards Archive, 2017—
"Baua Devi (b. 1945)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/baua-devi · CC BY-SA 4.0.