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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED
WEST COAST COLLECTION
469
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A BHAGAVATA PURANA SERIES:
KRISHNA AND BALARAMA LIBERATING THEIR PARENTS
VASUDEVA AND DEVAKI
NORTH INDIA, PUNJAB HILLS, KANGRA, 1820-1830
Folio 14 x 18¬in. (35 x 47.3cm.)
Image 12Ω x 16æin. (31.6 x 42.5cm.)
$40,000-60,000
PROVENANCE:
The George P. Bickford Collection, acquired before 2 February 1962.
Private collection, New York, by inheritance.
Christie's New York, 19 March 2013, lot 283.
EXHIBITED:
On loan to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2 February 1962 - 6 June 1984
Indian Art from the George P. Bickford Collection, 14 January - 16 February
1975 at The Cleveland Museum of Art; 20 March - 25 April, 1975 at the
University Art Museum, The University of Texas in Austin; 5 October
- 9 November 1975 at Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois in
Champaign; 3 February - 7 March 1976 at Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; 28 March - 3 May 1976 at
University Gallery, University of Florida in Gainesville; 28 May - 30 July
1976 at Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona; 5 October - 28 November 1976 at
University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley; 2 January - 13
February 1977 at University of Michigan Museum of Art at Ann Arbor.
LITERATURE:
S. Czuma, Indian Art from the George P. Bickford Collection, 1975, cat. 121.
P. Banerjee, The Life of Krishna in Indian Art, New Delhi, 1978, no. 173.

S. Czuma, Indian Art from the George P. Bickford Collection, 1975,
cover and cat. 121.

P. Banerjee, The Life of Krishna in Indian Art, New Delhi, 1978,
cover and no. 173.