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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A BHAGAVATA PURANA SERIES: THE GOPIS SEEKING KRISHNA GUJARAT, EARLY 17TH CENTURY image 1
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Lot 652

AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A BHAGAVATA PURANA SERIES:
THE GOPIS SEEKING KRISHNA
GUJARAT, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

23 September 2020, 15:00 EDT
New York

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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A BHAGAVATA PURANA SERIES:
THE GOPIS SEEKING KRISHNA

GUJARAT, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Opaque watercolor and ink on paper.
7 1/4 x 12 in. (18.4 x 30.5 cm)

Footnotes

With their hands raised in deference, eight gopis search for Krishna throughout a colorful, forested landscape. The upper portion is dedicated to the painting's narrative, with beautifully calligraphed devanagari script. This charming, naïve painting style, from Gujarat in the early 17th century, employed loose horizontal contrasting bands of color and emphasized more naturalism than earlier Jain manuscripts from the region. Other pages from this series can be observed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1974.222) and the Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia (1997.9; Ehnbom, Realms of Earth and Sky, Charlottesville, 2014, p.39, no.10).

Provenance
Collection of Jagdish and Kamla Mittal
Collection of Milo Cleveland Beach

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