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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A SUNDAR SHRINGAR SERIES: RADHA IN The present illustration is from the Sundar Shringar, a poetic text composed
CONVERSATION WITH HER ATTENDANT in the early seventeenth century by the poet Sundar Das. The poem details
GULER, PUNJAB HILLS, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1780-85 the various moods of love and the classification of literary heroes and
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, within dark blue margins, heroines (nayaka-nayika bheda). The subject matter is comparable to other
the reverse with 5ll. of black and red devanagari, with flyleaf with numbered literary texts such as the Rasikapriya of Keshav Das and the Rasamanjari of
royal Mandi collection stamp Bhanudatta with Krishna and Radha as the protagonist lovers illustrating
Painting 5¬ x 9ºin. (14.2 x 23.5 cm); folio 7æ x 11ºin. (19.7 x 28.6cm.) various stages of passion and romance.
£40,000-60,000 US$56,000-84,000 The Sundar Shringar series with its landscape format and delicate, refined
€47,000-69,000
style is closely comparable to the ‘Second Guler’ or Tehri-Garhwal Gita
PROVENANCE: Govinda series of 1765-70. The scenes of the Sundar Shringar are illustrated
Royal Mandi Collection in architectural settings instead of the lush green landscapes of the Gita
Private collection, Germany, 1960s Govinda. (J. P. Losty et. al., A Mystical Realm of Love: Pahari Paintings From
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 20 September 2005, lot 109 the Eva and Konrad Seitz Collection, 2017, p.291).
LITERATURE: An illustration from the same series sold in these Rooms, 24 October
Goswamy, B.N. and Fischer E., Pahari Masters - Court Painters of Northern 2019, lot 131. For further pages from this series which have sold at auction,
India, Artibus Asiae, Zurich, 1992
Goswamy, B.N. and Fischer E., 'The First Generation after Manaku and see Bonhams, London, 23 October 2018, lot 149; Sotheby’s, New York, 19
Nainsukh of Guler' in Masters of Indian Painting, Artibus Asiae, Zurich, 2011 September 2008, lots 201-204; 19 March 2008, lots 205-208; 19 September
2006, lots 1-5; 29 March 2006, lot 149-152; 20 September 2005, lots 106-
108; 1 April 2005, lots 110-113.

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