Read Jayantilal's correspondence with The Mother - from the period spanning 1936-1970
The Mother : correspondence
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Born on 21 June 1913, the Gujarati disciple Jayantilal Parekh joined the Ashram on 28 December 1938 at the age of twenty-five. A talented artist, he made hundreds of paintings and drawings under the Mother's guidance during his first decade in the Ashram. Then for most of the next fifty years he worked at the Ashram Press. In the early 1970s he organised the publication of the thirty-volume Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, and in 1973 he founded the Ashram Archives and Research Library. He lived for sixty years in the Ashram, until his passing on 26 January 1999 at the age of eighty-five.
Jayantilal's correspondence with the Mother covers the period from 1936 to 1970.
Mother,
I am sending you some art books for your opinion. I want to know your opinion about Cezanne and Van Gogh because they are praised so much by modern critics, especially Cezanne. One very good English critic, Roger Fry, calls him a divine artist, meaning perfect in some of his works.
The pictures by Cezanne and Van Gogh in the books you have sent are very beautiful (especially those of Cezanne). I shall return the books in one or two days—I want to look at them carefully.
12 March 1936
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