Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Pandit Ram Gopal NPG Ax39655

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Francis Goodman

Born in Bangalore, India, Gopal was a dancer, choreographer and teacher, who pioneered classical Indian dance styles such as Kathakali in the UK, where he first danced in 1939. After the Second World War he starred in a number of Hollywood epics made on location, such as The Purple Plain (1954) and William Dieterle's Elephant Walk (1954), for which he choreographed the dance sequences. After a series of successful world tours he settled in London in 1954. In the 1960s, Gopal and British ballerina ... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.