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Dancing Gopi
by Jamini Roy (1887-1972)
India, circa 1940

Gouache on paper, the green-skinned gopi, wearing yellow sari, stands swaying on one foot with her arms raised as she dances, dark red ground, beige and black borders, signed below in red, (negligible spotting), mounted, framed and glazed
17½ x 8½in. (44.5 x 21.6cm.)
Provenance
Purchased direct from the artist by the present owner in 1942.
Literature

Lot Essay

A painting of the same subject by the artist was sold at Sotheby's: Contemporary Indian Paintings, The Chester and Davida Herwitz Charitable Trust, New York, 12 June 1995, lot 1.

For another painting by the same artist see: Christie's South Kensington Oriental Works of Art, 26 October 1995, lot 280.

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