A Kamasan painting on cloth Bali, late 19th Century


of rectangular form, decorated in polychrome pigments, with two horizontal bands depicting battle scenes, a vertical border of flame motifs to each end, an inner border of squares to the lower edge, with an outer border of repeating spirals and vertical lines 240.5 x 111 cm.
|ProvenancePrivate Italian collectionFormerly in the collection of Nasli Heeramaneck and thence by descentNasli Heeramaneck (1902-1971) was a Parsi-American collector and dealer who specialised in Asian and European art and antiques. Born in Mumbai, he moved to Paris in the late 1920s and later settled in New York. He had a large collection of bronzes from Luristan, one of which was sold to the British Museum. Other works collected by him and his wife, Alice, are held by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.