ID 828586
Lot 66 | A YOGI WITH HIS TWO YOUNG ATTENDANTS
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 20 000
BY DHANRAJ, MUGHAL INDIA, 1595-1600
Brush drawing in brown and black ink with colour washes heightened with gold on paper, set within pink upper and lower borders with gold floral designs and gold rules, laid down on a gold-sprinkled green album page with red rule, inscribed in lower right corner in nasta'liq, reverse with 25ll. of black nasta'liq arranged in four columns, heading in gold, intercolumnar inscriptions, set between gold and polychrome rules
Drawing 5 3/8 x 3 1/2in. (13.8 x 8.8cm.); folio 10 x 5 7/8in. (25.2 x 14.8cm.)
Provenance
Spink and Son,
Private Collection, Japan
Literature
J.P. Losty, Paintings from the Royal Courts of India, Francesca Galloway catalogue, London, 2008, no. 3,
L.V. Habighorst, ‘Caricature and satire in Indian miniature painting’, in M. Horstmann and H. Pauwels (eds.), Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2012, pp. 117-32, fig. 1,
J.P. Losty, Indian Paintings from the Ludwig Habighorst Collection, Francesca Galloway, London, 2018, no. 23.
Exhibited
Mystik - Die Sehnsucht nach dem Absoluten, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, 23 September 2011 - 15 January 2013.
| Applied technique: | Painted |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Place of origin: | India, Asia, Mughal Empire |
| Applied technique: | Painted |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Place of origin: | India, Asia, Mughal Empire |
| Address of auction |
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