AN ILLUSTRATION DEPICTING VASANT RAGINI: A CELEBRATION OF SPRING

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AN ILLUSTRATION DEPICTING VASANT RAGINI: A CELEBRATION OF SPRING
Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
image: 7 1/2 by 5 1/4 in. (19 by 13.5 cm);
folio: 7 7/8 by 6 3/4 in. (20 by 17.1 cm) unframed

Catalogue Note

A folio from a dispersed ragamala series, Vasant Ragini. Krishna and Radha in a stately dance as two musicians play cymbal and drum. She holds a sprig of blossoms and he holds a globular flask. Two distant palm trees stand upright sprouting leaves offering the promise of fertility. A delicately executed and quite formal evocation of Spring, the time of the Holi festival, their terrace splashed with red dye beneath their feet.