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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A DASHAVATARA SERIES: KURMA Published
AVATAR Ludwig Habighorst, Der Blaue Gott, Ragaputra Edition, Koblenz, 2014,
MANDI, CIRCA 1720 p.87 fig.37.
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper.
Image: 6 1/2 x 10 in. (16.5 x 25.4 cm); Exhibited
Folio: 7 3/4 x 11 1/8 in. (19.6 x 28.2 cm) Blumen – Bäume – Göttergärten, Völkerkunde-Museum, Hamburg, 17
March - 27 October 2013.
$15,000 - 20,000 Der Blaue Gott, Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz, 26 July - 5 October
2014.
Vishnu in his avatar, the turtle Kurma, battles the evil demon within a
river spaced by large lotus blossoms. A folio of Avatar Matsya in the Provenance
British Museum is likely from the same series (see, Ahluwalia, Rajput Arki Royal Collection
Painting, London, 2008, p.123, fig.79). Ahluwalia notes, “The heavy Private German Collection
shading and coarse forms...places the work firmly in the reign of Sidh
Sen period of Mandi painting, a period of forty years characterized by
this heavy stippled and thus easily recognizable style.”
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