THE AWFUL EFFECTS OF DRUG ADDICTION

Lot 71
27.10.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 71 | THE AWFUL EFFECTS OF DRUG ADDICTION
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THE AWFUL EFFECTS OF DRUG ADDICTION

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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