SAWAR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1680

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A PINK STALLION AND GROOM
SAWAR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1680
Opaque pigments on paper, set within thin black border and narrow red margins, the verso plain, minor losses and stains, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 12 x 17in. (30.5 x 43.3cm.); folio 12 7⁄8 x 18in. (32.8 x 45.7cm.)

Provenance

With O.F. Wilson, 6 May 1974

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Lot Essay

This splendid pink horse shows both the part-coloured technique that was so popular in Sawar, and also the intensely dark shading formed of very fine lines that relates to the drawing style of Kota. The fiercely intense expression on the horse’s face is related to that on A Young Prince which was on the market in 2014 attributed to Sawar (Francesca Galloway, Summer Exhibition, 2014, no.16).

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