Born in Baler, Rajasthan in 1906, Ramgopal Vijaivargiya found his inspiration from the Bengal School of painting though he remained wholly unattached to any particular school of Indian art. In the foreword to The Art of Vijaivargiya (1935), Ram Chandra Tandan wrote: "The Art of Vijaivargiya is noteworthy not only because of its actual achievement, which is considerable, but also because of its great promise: for the artist is still young and full of confidence in himself." (R C Tandan, The Art of Vijaivargiya, Allahabad: Allahabad Block Works, p. 4)

At the time, Ramgopal Vijaivargiya was 30, and had sold nearly 1000 paintings in the small space of the Indian art world of the 1930s. R C Tandan noticed his ta...