KRISHNA`S HIDDEN LOVE IN SEPARATION

Lot 73
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Lot 73 | KRISHNA'S HIDDEN LOVE IN SEPARATION
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KRISHNA'S HIDDEN LOVE IN SEPARATION

BUNDI, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1680

An illustration to the Rasikapriya of Keshav Das, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, 4ll. black devanagari above against a yellow ground, set within gold, black and white rules, red margins with inscriptions in black devanagari, the reverse plain

Painting 10 1/2 x 6 3/4in. (26.5 x 17.2cm.); text panel 11 3/4 x 6 3/4in. (30 x 17.2cm.); folio 14 3/4 x 9 5/8in. (37.5 x 24.5cm.)





Provenance

Private Collection, USA

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 28 October 1991, lot 26



Literature

L.V. Habighorst, L. Reichart and V. Sharma, Love for Pleasure: Betel, Tobacco, Wine and Drugs in Indian Miniatures, Ragaputra Edition, Koblenz, 2007. Published in German as Genuss und Rausch. Betel, Tabak, Wein und Rauschdrogen in indischen Miniaturen, Ragaputra Edition, Koblenz, 2007, fig. 19

L.V. Habighorst, Blumen - Bäume - Göttergärten in indischen Miniaturen, Koblenz, 2011, fig. 35

H.V. Dehejia, Rasikapriya: Ritikavya of Keshavdas in Ateliers of Love, DK Printworld, New Delhi, 2013, p.133

L.V. Habighorst, Der blaue Gott in indischen Miniaturen, Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, 2014, no. 21

J.P. Losty, Rajput Paintings from the Ludwig Habighorst Collection, Francesca Galloway, London, 2018, no.5



Exhibited

Blumen - Bäume - Göttergärten - Indische Malerei aus sechs Jahrhunderten, Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg, 17 March - 27 October 2013

Der Blaue Gott in indischen Miniaturen, Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, 26 July - 5 October 2014
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