An illustration to a Ragamala series: Madhumadhavi Ragini, India, Deccan, possibly Aurangabad, circa 1720-40
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gouache heightened with gold and silver on paper, with narrow silver border, black rules, wide red margins with large single flowering plants, inscribed on the reverse at upper right in devanagari script ''...madhumadhavi'', further inscribed in nasta'liq script ''ragini madhu...''
painting 23.5 by 15.2cm; leaf 25 by 17.5cm.
Ex-collection Alec Simpson, New Jersey.
Bonhams New York, 11 September 2012, lot 77.
Bonhams New York, 11 September 2012, lot 77.
This series of ragamala paintings, possibly painted in Aurangabad in North Deccan, is distinguishable by its orange-red margins decorated with large gold flowering plants in the Mughal style. Five paintings from this set are in the Museum Rietberg, Zurich (G. Boner, E. Fischer, B.N. Goswamy, Sammlung Alice Boner, Zurich, 1994, no. 40-4, p.42). Another painting, from the Eva and Konrad Seitz collection, is published in Seyller and Seitz 2010, no.46, pp.136-8. A further painting, published in J. Masselos, J. Menzes, P.Pal, Dancing to the Flute: Music and Dance in Indian Art, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, exhibition catalogue, Sydney, 1997, no.199, sold at Replica Shoes ’s New York, 16 September 1998, lot 209A.
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