拍品 54
54
AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE BHAGAVATA PURANA: DURGA'S WARNING GIVEN TO KAMSA
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AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE BHAGAVATA PURANA: DURGA'S WARNING GIVEN TO KAMSA

BASOHLI-GULER STYLE, INDIA, CIRCA 1760-65

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AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE BHAGAVATA PURANA: DURGA'S WARNING GIVEN TO KAMSA
BASOHLI-GULER STYLE, INDIA, CIRCA 1760-65
Opaque pigments and gold on paper, Kamsa shown asleep in his palace on the left, on the right Kamsa seizes the baby Durga from her mother's arms, in the centre the eight-armed Durga appears in the sky and warns Kamsa that the eighth child of Devaki will kill him, with large red borders, with black and white rules, the reverse with 10ll. of black and red devanagari and 2ll. of takri, numbered '99', with protective fly-leaf, framed and glazed
Painting 9 1/8 x 13 3/8in. (23.2 x 34cm.); 11 5/8 x 15 7/8in. (29.5 x 40.3cm.) overall
來源
Mrs F.K. Smith, Sotheby's, London, 3 February 1960, lot 2

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Romain Pingannaud
Romain Pingannaud
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拍品專文

This painting is by the same artist as lots 55 and 56 in this sale. Three subsequent episodes appear in the present painting. On the left, Kamsa is shown being awaken by his ministers as the news of the birth of Devaki and Vasudeva’s child has come to them. On the right, Kamsa seizes the baby child who escapes his grasp. Devaki and Vasudeva’s true child, Balarama, had been substituted with Yogmaya (a form of Durga) whilst still in Devaki’s womb. It is Yogmaya that appears in her eight-armed form in the sky and warns Kamsa of his prophecy – that he shall be killed by Devaki and Vasudeva’s eight child.

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