ID 828829
Lot 77 | GARGA PERFORMS THE NAMING CEREMONY FOR KRISHNA AND BALARAMA
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
ATTRIBUTED TO FATTU AND WORKSHOP, PAHARI HILLS, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1765
An illustration to the Bhagavata Purana, opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, set within black borders and red margins with white rules, the reverse plain, with attached flyleaf
Painting 9 1/4 x 13 1/2in. (23.7 x 34.5cm.); folio 11 x 15 1/8in. (28 x 38.5cm.)
Provenance
Collection of Mrs F.K. Smith
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, London, 1 February 1960, lot 3
Literature
V. Sharma, Kangra ki citramkan parampara, Chamba, 2010, p. 71.L.V. Habighorst, Der blaue Gott in indischen Miniaturen, Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, 2014, no. 1
B.N. Goswamy, 'Manaku of Guler', Artibus Asiae Supplementum, 52, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, 2017, fig. 41, p. 31 (detail)
J.P. Losty, Rajput Paintings from the Ludwig Habighorst Collection, Francesca Galloway, 2019, no. 1
V. Sharma, Painting in the Kangra Valley, Delhi, 2020, pl.113
Exhibited
Der Blaue Gott in indischen Miniaturen, Koblenz, Mittelrhein Museum, 26 July-5 October 2014
| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Gold, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Pahari painting |
| Place of origin: | India, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Gold, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Pahari painting |
| Place of origin: | India, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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