An illustration to a Ragamala series: Bhairava Raga, India, Bilaspur, circa 1730-40

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8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

gouache heightened with gold on paper, with narrow black border, white rules, red margins, inscribed on the reverse with one line of takri, one line of devanagari and 2 lines of gurmukhi script in black ink, the inscriptions identifying the raga

painting: 21.4 by 12.4cm.

leaf: 26.3 by 17.3cm.

W.G. Archer described the style of this ragamala series from Bilaspur as noteworthy for ‘the use of cleanly modelled forms, suave precise design and sharply phrased faces’ (Archer, 1973, Vol.I, p.237). Two paintings from this series depicting Sandhuri Ragini, consort of Hindol Raga; and Vinod Raga, son of Hindol Raga, are illustrated in Archer 1973, Vol.II, p.179, 33(i), (ii). For further illustrations from this series, see Bonhams London, 8 April 2014, lot 279; and Bonhams New York, 14 March 2016, lot 105.

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