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PROPERTY FROM THE ASBJORN LUNDE FOUNDATION
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RADHA WATCHING THE APPROACHING STORM Compare with a similar scene in the San Diego Museum of Art
KANGRA, CIRCA 1830-40 (Goswamy & Smith, Domains of Wonder, 2005, pp.252-3, fig.108).
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; verso with several ink Also see related works of similar size sold by Christie’s, New York, 18
inscriptions in English and Nagari script, including one reportedly September 2013, lot 363 (attributed c.1840) and Bonhams, New York,
translating another into English, dated 8th June 1990, “’Radha, wife 19 March 2018, lot 3106 (dated 1854).
of Krishna, asks the clouds tidings of her absent husband”; verso
also with inventory markings in pencil dated “6/65”; together with Provenance:
an old matte-board with stamped date of 6 December 1965 and Maggs Bros. Ltd., London, 10 September 1965
corresponding lot sticker or inventory number “No. 3123A”. Collection of Asbjorn Lunde (1927-2017), New York
Image: 8 1/8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.2 cm);
Folio: 9 x 6 7/8 in. (23 x 17.4 cm)

$2,000 - 3,000
To be sold without reserve

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