AN ILLUSTRATION DEPICTING KRISHNA WITH RED DYE DURING THE HOLI FESTIVAL

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Description

AN ILLUSTRATION DEPICTING KRISHNA WITH RED DYE DURING THE HOLI FESTIVAL
Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
image: 8 by 4 7/8 in. (20.4 by 12.5 cm);
folio: 9 3/4 by 6 5/8 in. (24.7 by 16.8 cm) unframed

Catalogue Note

Krishna aims his red-dye sprayer at a seated Radha who covers her eyes as she raises a hennaed palm. On a green terrace two friends throwing red in a joyous evocation of Holi, the springtime festival of renewal.