LOT 652 AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A MARKANDEYA PURANA SERES: KALI GIVES A...
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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A MARKANDEYA PURANA SERES: KALI GIVES A TERRIBLE CRYGULER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper. Image: 5 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. (13.7 x 20.9 cm); Folio: 6 3/8 x 9 1/8 in. (16 x 23 cm) Some of the original drawings, attributed to the Nainsukh family, from which this series wasposed are in the Mittal Collection (John Seyller and Jagdish Mittal, Pahari Drawings , Hyderabad, 2013, nos. 23-28). No. 24 depicts the same scene as that in the present example, Kali letting out a terrible cry in order to frighten the host of demons. The authors note of this dramatic moment: "In one upper hand raised to shoulder height, Kali holds a noose, an ominous instrument of death. The other hand, held higher, is empty but menacing nevertheless, for the forceful gesture is apanied by s sky-splitting shriek that instantly saps the enemy of its will to fight." pare with two other Guler illustrations sold at , one in London, 6 April 2006, lot 431, and in Knightsbridge, 5 November 2014, lot 397. Provenance: Mandi Royal Collection Private German Collection
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