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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE BHAGAVATA PURANA
NEPAL, CIRCA 1775
Opaque watercolor on paper
Image 12¡ x 18æ in. (31.5 x 47.6 cm.)
folio 14º x 20¬ in.
(36.3 x 52.5 cm.)
$12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 10 April 1973
Collection of Baroness Guy de Gunzburg (1926-2016), Virginia
The present and following lot come from dispersed Nepalese
versions of the Bhagavata Purana, which chronicles the ten avatars
of Lord Vishnu, each of whom must save the world from danger,
destroy the wicked and protect the virtuous.

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