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PROPERTY FROM THE LANIER COLLECTION Our painting has Deccani characteristics, probably painted at
or near Hyderabad, as noted in the highly stylized trees, nim
A GURU RECEIVES A STRINGED qalam (half-painted) manner as well as the extremely ne
INSTRUMENT quality of the faces of the yogis.
India, Deccan, possibly Hyderabad, Possibly attributable to the artist Masud - a Mughal artist
mid-late 18th Century active in the mid-Eighteenth Century. This attribution is based
upon another colored drawing of ascetics almost certainly
Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper by the same hand in the Victoria and Albert Museum London
image: 9¼ by 6¾ in. (2.5 by 15.2 cm) which is attributed there to Masud (V&A IM.289-1913).
An old label, a xed to the verso of the painting, is inscribed in
PROVENANCE Dutch in an early Nineteenth Century hand.
Private Dutch collection $ 5,000-7,000
Acquired circa 1989
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A very ne depiction of a cloaked holy man, seated on a
tigerskin rug leaning on his crook. He gazes at a small stringed
instrument presented by a devotee, who holds it up delicately
with one hand, lightly plucking at the strings. Seated in a circle
of yogis, playing drum and cymbals - with another seated with
legs bound. Beneath stylized trees.
