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Lot 1 | DESIGNER UNKNOWN. AUSTRALIA / AIR-INDIA. 39x25 inches, 101x63 cm. Bombay Fine Art Offset & Litho Works.
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DESIGNER UNKNOWN AUSTRALIA / AIR-INDIA.
39 3/4x25 inches, 101x63 cm. Bombay Fine Art Offset & Litho Works.
Condition A- / B+: loss in bottom right corner; tears at edges; creases in margins and image. Paper.
A world renowned and recognized corporate icon, Air India's Maharaja was born in 1946, the creative genius of Air India's commercial director, Bobby Kooka, and Umesh Rao, an artist with the Mumbai branch of J. Walter Thompson Ltd. "The Maharaja began merely as a rich Indian potentate, symbolizing graciousness and high living. And somewhere along the line his creators gave him a distinctive personality, his outsized moustache, the striped turban and his aquiline nose . . . Air-India calls him the Maharaja for want of a better description. But his blood isn't blue. He may look like royalty, but he isn't royal . . . Today, this naughty, diminutive Maharaja of Air-India has become a world figure. He can be a lover boy in Paris, a sumo wrestler in Tokyo, a pavement artist, a Red Indian, a monk. He can effortlessly flirt with the beauties of the world. And most importantly, he can get away with it all. Simply, because he is the Maharaja." (The Chandigarh Tribune, July 17, 2005).
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