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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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