Sale 2640
New York
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20 March 2012
Price realised
USD 20,000
Estimate
A SKETCH OF A TIGER HUNT INDIA, RAJASTHAN, KOTA, LATE 18TH CENTURY Depicting a wooded landscape with a dense concentration of trees, on the left a group of hunters standing amongst the trees, to the center right a tiger with tail upright runs away, directly above a tiger climbing a tree, a further pair of hunters hiding at upper left, a pack of wild boar in the lower right, with a background of hills and a deep valley 21¼ x 21 in.
Provenance
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, late 1970s-early 1980s
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