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A FOLIO FROM THE KANGRA RASIKAPRIYA: KRISHNA EXAMINES A PICTURE OF HIS BELOVED
SCHOOL OF PURKHU, KANGRA, CIRCA 1810 Opaque watercolor and gold on paper with an attached flyleaf; painting inscribed on the reverse in nagari script with the text of Rasikapriya chapter 4, verse 12, entitled in red: atha Sri Krishna ko prakasa citra darsana ('Sri Krishna's manifest vision [of his beloved] through a painting') Image: 10 x 6 1/8 in. (25.5 x 15.6 cm); Folio: 13 x 9 in. (33 x 22.8 cm)
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Discussing another painting from the Kangra Rasikapriya, Goswamy writes, "Krishna becomes for the poet the ideal nyak, and Radha the archetypal beloved. Through them, and occasionally through a sahki-friend, intense love is expressed, experienced, celebrated." (Goswamy, The Spirit of Indian Painting, 2016, p.441.) ? Krishna sits entranced by the portrait of Radha her sakhi has brought him. The crimson sky and abundant poppies reflect the intensity of love Radha's image inspires in him. The sakhi tries to convey a message, but despite her striking tiger-orange sari, Krishna pays her no heed. His thoughts, his soul are consumed, are owned by Radha. ? "The glorious wives of demigods, Past skies who move, kinnari maids, Are naught before her; women all At her feet bow – snake women frail, Slim dancing girls, hill-women tall, She demons, heavenly damsels pale: As if lightening took form divine: Even Kama's wife poor beside her shows! Like Lakshmi or Sita she shines, And even her picture steals my soul!"(Bahadur, Rasikapriya, Mumbai, 1972, p.64.) ? The artist has placed Krishna at the center of the composition, his long frame intersecting the pavilion's planes of stark white and grey, perhaps alluding to his conflicting emotions. The plum blossoms superimposed over the intense sky evoke the fragility of love and how quickly it can perish. This is one of the finest and most engaging pages from the Kangra Rasikapriya, where the artist's use of color, architecture, and line reflect the emotion of the verse and draws the viewer in to be entranced just like Krishna. ? The Kangra Rasikapriya, is a large series with paintings of varying quality. This painting is early in the series and of superior quality. Its large figures might indicate the hand of Purkhu (cf. Goswamy & Fischer, 'Purkhu of Kangra' in Beach, Fischer & Goswamy, Masters of Indian Painting, Artibus Asiae, Zurich, 2011, pp.719–32). Well known and widely published, see fourteen other paintings from the series in the Victoria and Albert Museum, published in Archer, Indian Painting from the Punjab Hills, 1973, Kangra, no.66 i-vi, pp.305-307. Another was sold at Bonhams, New York, 19 March 2012, lot 1186 and three folios were sold at Sotheby's, New York, 20 March 2013, lots 311, 315 & 318 and Bonhams, New York, 14 March 2016, lot 107. ? Published Jerry Losty, Pahari Paintings from The Eva And Konrad Seitz Collection, Francesca Galloway, London 2016, no.21. ? Provenance Collection of Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Lahore (1897-1975) Eva and Konrad Seitz Collection, Germany Francesca Galloway, London, 2016