A FEMALE DEVOTEE APPROACHING A LINGA SHRINE - photo 1

A FEMALE DEVOTEE APPROACHING A LINGA SHRINE

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Auction dateClassic
31.03.2022 10:30UTC +01:00
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ID 727326
Lot 103 | A FEMALE DEVOTEE APPROACHING A LINGA SHRINE
A FEMALE DEVOTEE APPROACHING A LINGA SHRINE

ATTRIBUTED TO CHOKHA, DEVGARH, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1820

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, margins cropped, the reverse with incription in blue pen, in plain card mount

Painting 8 x 5 3⁄4in. (20.4 x 14.5cm.)







Provenance

William Brown and Paul Wonner, California, by 1976, sold in 1993 to

Barbara Janeff, San Francisco, sold 2014

Bonhams, New York, 17 September 2014, lot 114

Nancy Wiener, New York







Literature

Robert J. Del Bontà, Divine Visions Worldly Lovers: Highlighting Indian Paintings from the Collection of Barbara Janeff, San Francisco, 2007, p. 37 no. 16

Pratapaditya Pal, The Flute and the Brush, Indian Paintings from the William Theo Brown and Paul Wonner Collection, Newport Beach, 1976, no. 17







Exhibited

Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona March 14 - April 18, 1967;

The Flute and the Brush, Indian Paintings from the William Theo Brown and Paul Wonner Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Jan. 20 - Feb. 20, 1976;

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 10-July 25, 1976;

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, October 3 - November 7, 1976;

The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, November 16 - December 19, 1976;

de Saisset Art Gallery & Museum, The University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA, January 7 - February 13, 1977.

Divine Visions Worldly Lovers: Highlighting Indian Paintings from the Collection of Barbara Janeff: Bolinas Museum, September 22 - November 11, 2007; Mills College Art Museum, June 18 - August 3, 2008;









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