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Sree Chitra Art Gallery is an art gallery in Thiruvananthapuram, India, established in 1935.It is located in the northern grounds of the Napier Museum. It was inaugurated by Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma.The gallery features a unique collection of traditional and contemporary paintings, including the works of Raja Ravi Varma, Nicholas Roerich, Svetoslav Roerich, Jamini Eoy, Rabindranath Tagore, V. S. Valiathan, C. Raja Ravi Varma and K. C. S. Panikar. There are approximately 1100 paintings at the gallery.The art gallery has on display works from the Mughal, Rajput, Bengal, Rajastani, and Tanjore schools of art.The gallery houses 400-year-old Tanjore Miniature Paintings.Ravi Varma's rare pencil sketches are also displayed at the gallery. The paintings of Ravi Varma which were earlier kept at Chithralaya in Kilimanoor were given to the art gallery by the Kilimanoor Palace as a permanent loan in 1941.The palace originally handed over 70 Ravi Varma paintings but some of them are not on display at the art gallery due to space constraints.