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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RASAMANJARI SERIES:
PREMAGARVITA NAYIKA Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 10 June - 25
ATTRIBUTED TO GULU, NURPUR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1715 July 1976
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, within black and white rules Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, 3 October - 7
and red margins, the reverse with 5ll. of black and red devanagari November 1976
Painting 6¬ x 10Ωin. (16.9 x 26.5cm.); folio 8º x 12in. (20.6 x 30.5cm.) The Art Galleries University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 16
November - 19 December 1976
£15,000-20,000 US$21,000-28,000 De Saisset Art Gallery & Museum, The University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara,
€18,000-23,000 California, 7 January - 12 February 1977
PROVENANCE:
LITERATURE:
Nasli M. Heeramaneck (Pan Asian Collection) Robert J. Del Bontà, Divine Visions Worldly Lovers: Highlighting Indian Paintings
Christian Humann from the Collection of Barbara Janeff, San Francisco, 2007, p.45, no. 20
William Theophilus Brown, acquired from the above, mid 1960s Pratapaditya Pal, The Flute and the Brush, Indian Paintings from the William
With Barbara Janneff, San Francisco, 1994-2014 Theo Brown and Paul Wonner Collection, Newport Beach, 1976, no. 37
Bonhams New York, 17 September 2014, lot 115
This painting is from a celebrated series of which other folios are in the
EXHIBITED:
LACMA (M.74.5.9 and M.75.4.29, see Heeramaneck, Masterpieces of Indian
Divine Visions Worldly Lovers: Highlighting Indian Paintings from the Collection
Painting, Los Angeles, 1985, pp. 108-9, pls. 93 & 95). Further folios are also
of Barbara Janeff, Bolinas Museum, 22 September - 11 November 2007
published in Goswamy et.al. Masters of Indian Paintings: 1650-1900, Zurich,
The Flute and the Brush, Indian Paintings from the William Theo Brown and Paul
Wonner Collection, Mills College Art Museum, 18 June - 3 August 2008 2011, pp. 455-7, figs. 11-3. Goswamy praises the charm and vivid but sensitive
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, 20 January - 20 Feburary 1976 colouring of the series which is aptly illustrated here by Premagarvita Nayika
Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona, 14 March - 18 April 1976 speaking with her confidante.
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