AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A BHAGAVATA PURANA SERIES: KRISHNA AND BALARAMA LIBERATING THEIR PARENTS VASUDEVA AND DEVAKI - photo 1

AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A BHAGAVATA PURANA SERIES: KRISHNA AND BALARAMA LIBERATING THEIR PARENTS VASUDEVA AND DEVAKI

Lot 469
23.03.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 469 | AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A BHAGAVATA PURANA SERIES: KRISHNA AND BALARAMA LIBERATING THEIR PARENTS VASUDEVA AND DEVAKI
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$ 40 000 – 60 000
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A BHAGAVATA PURANA SERIES: KRISHNA AND BALARAMA LIBERATING THEIR PARENTS VASUDEVA AND DEVAKI

NORTH INDIA, PUNJAB HILLS, KANGRA, 1820-1830

Folio 14 x 18 5⁄8in. (35 x 47.3cm.)

Image 12 1⁄2 x 16 3⁄4in. (31.6 x 42.5cm.)







Provenance

The George P. Bickford Collection, acquired before 2 February 1962.

Private collection, New York, by inheritance.

Christie's New York, 19 March 2013, lot 283.





Literature

S. Czuma, Indian Art from the George P. Bickford Collection, 1975, cat. 121.

P. Banerjee, The Life of Krishna in Indian Art, New Delhi, 1978, no. 173.





Exhibited

On loan to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2 February 1962 - 6 June 1984

Indian Art from the George P. Bickford Collection, 14 January - 16 February 1975 at The Cleveland Museum of Art; 20 March - 25 April, 1975 at the University Art Museum, The University of Texas in Austin; 5 October - 9 November 1975 at Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois in Champaign; 3 February - 7 March 1976 at Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; 28 March - 3 May 1976 at University Gallery, University of Florida in Gainesville; 28 May - 30 July 1976 at Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona; 5 October - 28 November 1976 at University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley; 2 January - 13 February 1977 at University of Michigan Museum of Art at Ann Arbor.
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