ID 727360
Lot 91 | LIBERATION OF GAJENDRA (GAJENDRA MOKSHA)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
Bikaner, North India, circa 1625
Opaque pigments and ink heightened with gold and silver on paper, mounted on blue specked beige margins, 3ll. black and red devanagari above, the reverse with 4ll. black and red devanagari, 2ll. black devanagari on top margin
Painting 10 1⁄8 x 7 1⁄2in. (25.6 x 19cm.); folio 12 7⁄8 x 10in. (32.7 x 25.4cm.)
Provenance
Jane Greenough Green, Los Angeles
Cynthia Hazen Polsky collection, New York, sold
Bonhams, New York, 16 March 2015, lot 70
Art Market, New York
Nancy Wiener, New York
Exhibited
P. Pal, et al, Pleasure Gardens of the Mind, Indian Paintings from the Jane Greenough Green Collection, Los Angeles, 1993
Andrew Topsfield, ed., In the Realm of Gods and Kings: Art of India - Selections from the Polsky Collections and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asia Society and Museum, New York, 2004 p. 117, no. 43.
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| Place of origin: | India, Asia, Mughal Empire |
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| Place of origin: | India, Asia, Mughal Empire |
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