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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A MAHAVIDYA SERIES: MATANGI Seated on the ashen, naked body of Shiva, four-armed, dark-skinned
KANGRA OR GULER, CIRCA 1830 Matangi is the true, overwhelming source of divine power. She is one
Opaque watercolor with gold and silver on paper; a nagari inscription of the ten Mahavidyas, each a manifestation of the Divine Mother, the
identifying the subject in the top border. Adi Parashakti, the supreme primordial energy of the cosmos. Her
Image: 9 3/8 x 5 1/8 in. (23.8 x 13 cm); canopied marble pavilion rests on earth’s horizon.
Folio: 12 x 7 5/8 in. (30.4 x 19.3 cm)
Compare a closely related composition of Dakshina Kali in the Walters
$10,000 - 15,000 Art Gallery, Baltimore (Menzies, Goddess: Divine Energy, Sydney,
2006, no. 85). Also see another with an oval frame in Coomaraswamy,
Catalogue of the Indian Collections, Part V, Rajput Paintings, Boston,
1926, pl LXIII, no. CXCIX (17.2576), as well as Bonhams, New York, 11
September 2012, lot 93.

Provenance
Private Collection, Switzerland, 1970–2013

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