Nicholas Roerich Art Gallery Keylong

01/11/2025

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21/10/2025

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20/10/2025

At Keylong, the Roerich Art Gallery Gungshel proudly receives its inaugural international group visit, showcasing artistic beauty. 🎨

05/09/2022

The people of Kullu, Naggar and Lahaul districts in Himachal Pradesh feel indebted to the painter Nicholas Roerich and his family for putting the region on the world map.

29/08/2021

Roerich’s “Palden Lhamo” (1931) depicts the wrathful deity Palden Lhamo, considered to be the principal protector of Tibet, on a rock face in front of a waterfall.

In his book “Fiery Stronghold,” Roerich describes this scene during his travels: “Not far from here is the waterfall, Palden Lhamo. Upon the rocks, nature itself has designed the figure of the austere goddess riding on her favorite mule.”

In Roerich’s painting, the deity appears beside her eponymous waterfall.
Here, as in many of his paintings, Roerich drew inspiration from the places he traveled, where the stories and legends of his subjects had originated.

To read more of “Fiery Stronghold,” please go to roerich.org, where you can access the full text or buy a copy of the book.

06/08/2021

Excerpt from the book “Beautiful Unity” by Nicholas Roerich. ⠀

Please go to roerich.org if you’d like to read the full text and buy the book.

The image depicted “The Tablets of the Commandments,” painted by Roerich in 1931.

04/08/2021

Roerich’s “Chenrezi,” painted in 1932, depicts the bodhisattva of compassion carved into a mountain.

In his writings, Roerich points to where he came across an image of Cherenzi: “The twilight fell and the whole room seemed enveloped in new significance. The image of Chenrezi, superbly embroidered upon the lustrous silk, which hung above the head of the Lama, seemed to glance down at us in a significant way.” (“Shambhala”)
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In this painting, Roerich chooses to depict the image of Chenrezi carved into rock instead of on silk. The idea of twilight enveloping the scene in significance seems to still hold true though, as the figure appears half in shadow.⠀
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If you’d like the read more from “Shambhala,” please go to roerich.org, where you can read the full text and buy the book.

04/08/2021

Roerich completed “The Last Angel” in 1912, shortly before the outbreak of World War I. The angel stands in a landscape almost completely covered in fire and smoke, foreshadowing the destruction caused by the coming war.

Roerich modeled the style of this work after traditional icon painting. He used reverse perspective, also known as inverse or Byzantine perspective, which was also used in traditional Russian Orthodox icons. Unlike linear perspective, which makes closer objects appear larger, reverse perspective makes farther objects appear larger. This gives that “flat” effect, as though everything is up front instead of receding back.

If you’d like a print of this painting, please go to roerich.org.

19/02/2021

03/08/2019

आज रशियन ग्रुप के साथ शाशुर गोनपा व रोरिक हाऊस गुंगशेल का दौरा किया। यह सभी लोग इन्टरनेशनल रोरिक ट्रस्ट से आये थे। अगले साल रोरिक हाऊस गुंगशेल में एक अन्तराष्टीय प्रदर्शनी लगाया जाएगा, उम्मीद है कि इससे लाहौल में पर्यटन की सम्भावनायें बढेगी।