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649 Compare the stylistic rendering of Durga and the demon with a Nurpur
DURGA SLAYING THE DEMON MAHISHASURA painting of the same subject at the Detroit Institute of Arts (see WG Archer,
Indian Painting from the Punjab Hills, London and New York, 1973, vol.1,
INDIA, PAHARI HILLS, PROBABLY NURPUR OR BILASPUR, MID-18TH p.396, vol.2, p.311, fg.18). Both compositions show a fat plan of color in the
CENTURY background with a band of white an blue sky at the very top. The long, rounded
Opaque pigments and gold on paper shapes of the pink clouds in the present work echo those of the rock formation
10 x 7√ in. (25.5 x 20 cm.) in the Detroit example.
$5,000-7,000
印度 旁遮普 可為努尔普尔或比拉斯布爾 十八世紀中 屠牛魔形難近母繪畫
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