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A FOLIO FROM A BARAMASA SERIES: THE MONTH OF MAGHA (JANUARY/FEBRUARY)
GARHWAL, CIRCA 1780-90 Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; an attached flyleaf with a seven-line nagari inscription of the corresponding poetic verse in black and red. Image: 7 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. (18.3 x 13.6 cm); Folio: 10 x 7 7/8 in. (25.2 x 19.9 cm)
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The lovers meet below a winter haze, wrapped in heavy, fire- and tiger-orange shawls. A burgundy carpet with dazzling arabesques insulates their bare feet from the cold marble pavilion. They greet one another, like the courting pigeons above Krishna's head. Lush trees frame Radha, with sinuous branches that reach up to a pair of deer grazing on the frosty horizon, evoking the harmony between our couple. Compared with the bleak colors of the painting of November/December that preceded it, which is now in the Victoria & Albert Museum (IS.6-1960), this painting's earth tones and promising natural imagery usher in the tail-end of winter and the anticipation of spring. Perhaps, the reversal of orange from inner to outer garments by each suggests the lovers are warming up to the idea of spending evenings wrapped in each other's arms out on the pavilion again? This painting has an excellent pedigree, being formerly of the collection of Bill and Mildred Archer, two eminent scholars of Indian court painting, who authored numerous seminal works. It is from the same set as the cover illustration for Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills from 1973, as well as the aforementioned painting in the Victoria & Albert Museum, where Bill Archer served as Keeper (Curator) of the Indian Section between 1949-59. He refers to this painting without providing an image in the 1973 book, but otherwise published it heavily before and after. Published W.G. Archer and D. Bhattacharya, Love Songs of Vidyapati, New York, 1963. pl.1. Mildred Archer and W.G. Archer, Romance and Poetry in Indian Painting: A Loan Exhibition of Indian Miniatures from the collection of Mildred and W. G. Archer, London, 1965, pl.51. W. G. Archer, Pahari Miniatures: A Concise History, Oxford, 1975, col. pl. 37. W. G. Archer, Visions of Courtly India: The Archer Collection of Pahari Paintings, Washington, 1976, p.26, pl.15. Exhibited Romance and Poetry in Indian Painting: A Loan Exhibition of Indian Miniatures from the collection of Mildred and W. G. Archer, 26 May - 19 June 1965. Visions of Courtly India: The Archer Collection of Pahari Paintings, A Travelling Exhibition Circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, 1976-1978 Provenance Ex-Mildred and W. G. Archer Collection, London, by 1963