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9/2/2020 Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art | Sotheby's

Indian, Hi ma layan & Southeast Asian Works of Art
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 12:00 PM EDT

Lot 376

AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE MAHABHARATA , INDIA , PU NJAB HILLS, MANDI, CIRCA 1830
Estimate: 2,000 - 3,000 USD

AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE MAHABHARATA
INDIA, PUNJAB HILLS, MANDI, CIRCA 1830

Opaque watercolor on paper heightened with gold

image: 9 ½ by 6 ¼ in. (24.1 by 15.9 cm)

folio: 11 ¾ by 8 ½ in. (29.8 by 21.6 cm), unframed

Provenance
Acquired from the Gordon H. Mattison collection, Maryland

Catalogue Note
The present painting and Lot 375 were once part of the collection of Mr. Gordon H. Mattison, a former Foreign Service officer with
deep interest and experience in Middle Eastern affairs. Born in Washington in 1915, Mr. Mattison grew up in India where his father
was a missionary. He began his career in the US Foreign Service in 1937. He traveled widely in the Middle East - to Iraq and Syria -
and by the late 1940s was Chief of the State Department's Division of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. In the 1950s Mr.
Mattison was posted in US Embassies in Cairo and Tehran. He capped his career with postings as US Consul General in Calcutta
and Kathmandu, Nepal. He passed away in 1999 at the age of 84.

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