TWO ILLUSTRATIONS: A FOLIO FROM A GITA GOVINDA SERIES: KRISHNA AND RADHA EXCHANGE CLOTHING, DEVI ENTHRONED AS SHIVA DANCES

Krishna and Radha Exchange Clothing - This painting is published in the catalog. Fair and stable overall condition. The image has a specked blue folio border not seen in catalog illustration. Abrasions, wear and creasing throughout are all visible in catalog illustration. There is a tear to the paper on the extreme middle right folio margin, not seen in catalog illustration and a few pinholes on the upper middle section of the folio margin also not seen in catalog illustration. Devi Enthroned as Shiva Dances - This painting is illustrated in the online catalog. Stable overall condition. Wear, losses and abrasions to the extremities of the painting with staining and scuffing to pigments particularly in areas of white. There is a loss to paper on the lower edge of the image towards the left. This lot is exhibited in a temporary frame.
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The Lila Hava:

"She wears his peacock feather and he dons her lovely delicate crown
She sports his yellow garment and he wraps himself in her beautiful sari
How charming the very sight of it,
The daughter of Vrsabhanu (Radha) turns into Nanda's son (Krishna) and Nanda's son becomes Vrsabhanu's girl".

For another Pahari painting from the Heeramaneck Collection of a related subject refer to Sotheby's New York, June 4 1994, Lot 156.

For reference also see Ananda Coomaraswamy, Rajput Painting, New York, 1916/ 1975, Pl XXXVIII. Museum of Fine Arts Boston (accession no. 25.536), inscribed: "Radhahari Hariradha ke vania sanketa. Dampati rati viparita sush sahaija surat hun laet." (The station of Radha being made Hari and Hari made Radha).

The second illustration depicting the evening dance of Shiva before Devi enthroned as Raj-Rajesvari, her head encircled by a golden nimbus.