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A 'Paithan' painting of a battle scene, India, Karnataka or Andhra Pradesh, mid to late 19th century
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Description
gouache on paper, framed, on reverse Philadelphia Art Museum exhibition label and traces of a Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute label
30 by 43cm.
Provenance
On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, probably 1983.
Literature
Kramrisch, S., Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1968, p.98, cat.177.
Exhibited
Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 20 January - 26 February 1968.
Catalogue note
This is probably an illustration from a Mahabharata or a Ramayana series. This work belongs to a group of paintings that was initially categorised as 'Paithan' due to a number of paintings being found at Paithan in Maharastha in the 1960s. However stylistically these works relate more closely to the South Indian painting idiom, in particular the painted textile and leather-puppet traditions of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Other 'Paithan' paintings are in the British Museum (Dallapiccola, A., South Indian Paintings, A Catalogue of The British Museum Collection, London 2010, pp.278-295) and the James Ivory Collection (Losty, J., Indian Paintings from the James Ivory Collection, London 2010, p.184).
For another 'Paithan' painting in the present sale, see lot 201.
30 by 43cm.
Provenance
On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, probably 1983.
Literature
Kramrisch, S., Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1968, p.98, cat.177.
Exhibited
Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 20 January - 26 February 1968.
Catalogue note
This is probably an illustration from a Mahabharata or a Ramayana series. This work belongs to a group of paintings that was initially categorised as 'Paithan' due to a number of paintings being found at Paithan in Maharastha in the 1960s. However stylistically these works relate more closely to the South Indian painting idiom, in particular the painted textile and leather-puppet traditions of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Other 'Paithan' paintings are in the British Museum (Dallapiccola, A., South Indian Paintings, A Catalogue of The British Museum Collection, London 2010, pp.278-295) and the James Ivory Collection (Losty, J., Indian Paintings from the James Ivory Collection, London 2010, p.184).
For another 'Paithan' painting in the present sale, see lot 201.
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gouache on paper, framed, on reverse Philadelphia Art Museum exhibition label and traces of a Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute label
30 by 43cm.
Provenance
On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, probably 1983.
Literature
Kramrisch, S., Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1968, p.98, cat.177.
Exhibited
Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 20 January - 26 February 1968.
Catalogue note
This is probably an illustration from a Mahabharata or a Ramayana series. This work belongs to a group of paintings that was initially categorised as 'Paithan' due to a number of paintings being found at Paithan in Maharastha in the 1960s. However stylistically these works relate more closely to the South Indian painting idiom, in particular the painted textile and leather-puppet traditions of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Other 'Paithan' paintings are in the British Museum (Dallapiccola, A., South Indian Paintings, A Catalogue of The British Museum Collection, London 2010, pp.278-295) and the James Ivory Collection (Losty, J., Indian Paintings from the James Ivory Collection, London 2010, p.184).
For another 'Paithan' painting in the present sale, see lot 201.
30 by 43cm.
Provenance
On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, probably 1983.
Literature
Kramrisch, S., Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1968, p.98, cat.177.
Exhibited
Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 20 January - 26 February 1968.
Catalogue note
This is probably an illustration from a Mahabharata or a Ramayana series. This work belongs to a group of paintings that was initially categorised as 'Paithan' due to a number of paintings being found at Paithan in Maharastha in the 1960s. However stylistically these works relate more closely to the South Indian painting idiom, in particular the painted textile and leather-puppet traditions of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Other 'Paithan' paintings are in the British Museum (Dallapiccola, A., South Indian Paintings, A Catalogue of The British Museum Collection, London 2010, pp.278-295) and the James Ivory Collection (Losty, J., Indian Paintings from the James Ivory Collection, London 2010, p.184).
For another 'Paithan' painting in the present sale, see lot 201.
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