AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: MALAR RAGINI
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE LONDON COLLECTOR
Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, India, late 18th - early 19th 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 a spouted ewer with a large lotus flower, flanked by two gopis playing the castanets and a large drum, the trio surrounded by lush tall trees, set within black rules and ochre yellow borders, the recto with a faded, erased line of black ink Devanagari script reading ... Ragini 29 (?), 21cm x 15cm.

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