PAITHAN, DECCAN, INDIA, MID-19TH CENTURY

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KRISHNA AND BALARAMA STRINGING THEIR BOWS
PAITHAN, DECCAN, INDIA, MID-19TH CENTURY
Probably an illustration to a Mahabharata, opaque pigments on paper, remains of red border, the verso plain
11 x 16 ½in. (27.8 x 41.9cm.)

Provenance

With Tooth Paintings, 6 July 1978, lot 113

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Lot Essay

This distinctive style of painting is traditionally associated with the town of Paithan, close to Aurangabad in Maharashtra. A similar illustration, possibly belonging to the same Mahabharata series, is in the Brooklyn Museum, New York (75.203.4) whilst another sold from the Doris Wiener Collection in Christie's New York, 20 March 2012, lot 309.

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