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PROPERTY FROM THE LANIER COLLECTION A joyful Radha throws handfuls of red powder - The inclusion of the maiden beating the drum
red stains everywhere - a handmaiden gets some is interesting. The drum beat may be seen as
RADHA AND KRISHNA in her eye as another taps a colorful rounded an archetypal element implying the rhythmic
INTERTWINE DURING HOLI drum. Pairs of geese swim serenely in the river progression of the seasons. Another somewhat
India, Rajasthan, Malpura, mid-18th beyond. earlier Rajasthani painting, from Sirohi depicting
Century Vasant Ragini, shows a related composition with
Possibly a version of Vasant Ragini. Krishna and the handmaiden playing a nearly identical yellow
Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper Radha hold each other close during Holi - the and red-ringed hand-drum; see Sherman Lee,
image: 8¼ by 5¾ in. (20.3 by 12.7 cm) festival celebrating the season of Spring and Rajput Painting, New York, 1960, p. 55, cat 53.
folio: 9¼ by 6¾ in. (23 by 15.24 cm) the promise of fertility. Standing icon-like on a
golden jeweled and velvet plinth they seem to $ 7,000-9,000
PROVENANCE intertwine and become as one. A verdant leafy
tree forming a green canopy, spreading out above
Acquired 1982 them. With black inner and red outer borders
with white ruled lines.
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