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37          ‘A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
                                                  A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou
    37                                            Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
                                                  O, Wilderness were Paradise enow!’
    PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
                                                  From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
    NARAYAN SHRIDHAR BENDRE                       – Translated by Edward Fitzgerald

    1910?–?1992

    Seventy Five Dreams Inspired by the
    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Mixed media on paper laid on card
    1947
    2? × 4 in. (6.5 × 10 cm.) and smaller (75)
    partially illustrated
    Inscribed ‘75 DREAMS / INSPIRED FROM / OMER
    KHAYYAM / RUBAYATS / PAINTED BY / ‘BENDRE’ /
    COMPLETED / IN 1947’ on title card

    ??10,00,000?–15,00,000

    $ 14,925?–?22,390

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