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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A MAHAVIDYA SERIES: MATANGI
KANGRA OR GULER, CIRCA 1830 Opaque watercolor with gold and silver on paper; a nagari inscription identifying the subject in the top border. Image: 9 3/8 x 5 1/8 in. (23.8 x 13 cm); Folio: 12 x 7 5/8 in. (30.4 x 19.3 cm)
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Seated on the ashen, naked body of Shiva, four-armed, dark-skinned Matangi is the true, overwhelming source of divine power. She is one of the ten Mahavidyas, each a manifestation of the Divine Mother, the Adi Parashakti, the supreme primordial energy of the cosmos. Her canopied marble pavilion rests on earth's horizon. Compare a closely related composition of Dakshina Kali in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (Menzies, Goddess: Divine Energy, Sydney, 2006, no. 85). Also see another with an oval frame in Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections, Part V, Rajput Paintings, Boston, 1926, pl LXIII, no. CXCIX (17.2576), as well as Bonhams, New York, 11 September 2012, lot 93. Provenance Private Collection, Switzerland, 1970–2013