THREE ILLUSTRATIONS: SHIVA IN THE CYCLE OF PRALAYA, NAYAKAS AND NAYIKAS FROM THE RASIKAPRIYA OF KESHAV DAS

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

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Description

THREE ILLUSTRATIONS: SHIVA IN THE CYCLE OF PRALAYA, NAYAKAS AND NAYIKAS FROM THE RASIKAPRIYA OF KESHAV DAS
Opaque watercolor on paper heightened with gold
image: 8 3/4 by 6 in. (22.3 by 15.2 cm);
folio: 10 3/8 by 7 7/8 in. (26.4 by 20 cm) and slightly smaller, [3], unframed, 1 illustrated

Provenance

Acquired from Maggs Bros., London between 1978-1980

Catalogue Note

Shiva pictured here seated on his tiger skin, playing his damaru (kettledrum) and engaged in the making of pralaya (the cycle of dissolution from which creation springs anew) with the bodies of mortals, demons, birds and animals spinning around him.

The two other illustrations in this lot are from a Rasikyapriya series and depict pairs of lovers in the guise of Radha and Krishna.