- 852
TWO MAIDENS FOLD A DIAPHANOUS SARI
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Log in to view results
bidding is closed
Description
- TWO MAIDENS FOLD A DIAPHANOUS SARI
- Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
- image: 8 1/8 by 6 in. (20.7 by 15.2 cm)
- folio: 10 1/4 by 7 7/8 in. (26 by 20 cm) unframed
Literature
Alice Heeramaneck, Masterpieces of Indian Painting, Verona, 1984, pl. 126, p.136
Catalogue Note
Two young maidens fold a red textile - one attentively finding the fold but the other distracted by a daydream - she leans into the trunk of an upright plantain tree lost in thoughts of her absent beloved.
For a painting of a solitary nayika suggestively grasping a plantain tree-trunk refer to W. G. Archer, Visions of Courtly India, London, 1976, cat. 26, pp. 46-47; and W. G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London, 1973, cat. 75.