29th Apr, 2022 13:00

Islamic & Indian Art

 
  Lot 287
 

AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: MALAR RAGINI
Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, India, late 18th century

AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: MALAR RAGINI
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE LONDON COLLECTOR
Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, India, late 18th century

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the vertical composition depicting a classical Malar Ragini scene with the blue-skinned God Krishna holding a veena and giving the musical tempo to the two gopis next to him playing the castanets and a large drum, three peacocks joining the scene in the background captivated by the music, set within black rules and ochre yellow borders, the recto with a line of black ink Devanagari script reading Megha Malar Ragini 32, 20.7cm x 14.8cm.

Provenance: Previously in the collection of the Swiss painter, sculptor, art historian, and Indologist Alice Boner (1889 - 1981)

For another similar 18th-century Rajasthani Malar Ragini composition from Bundi, please see the Cleveland Museum of Art collection (1989.343).

Sold for £400

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