ID 828761
Lot 71 | THE AWFUL EFFECTS OF DRUG ADDICTION
Estimate value
£ 5 000 – 7 000
PERHAPS JODHPUR OR MARWAR THIKANA, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, 1780-1800
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within a buff pink and gold-flecked album page between gold, blue and white rules, a purple upper border, the reverse plain
Painting 10 1/4 x 8 5/8in. (26 x 22cm.); folio 14 x 9 1/2in. (35.6 x 24.1cm.)
Literature
L.V. Habighorst, ‘Caricature and satire in Indian miniature painting’, in Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity, M. Horstmann and H. Pauwels (eds.), Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2012, pp. 117-32, fig. 7 (as Jodhpur or Pratapgarh, mid-18th century)
J.P. Losty, Indian Paintings from the Ludwig Habighorst Collection, Francesca Galloway, London, 2018, no. 30
Exhibited
Genuss und Rausch - Betel, Tabak, Wein, Hasch und Opium in der indischen Malerei, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, 2010.
Pergamonmuseum, Genuss und Rausch - Wein, Tabak und Drogen in indischen Miniaturen, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Bodestrabe, 2014.
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