AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAMAYANA SERIES: HANUMAN TAKES LEAVE OF SITA AND DESTROYS THE ASHOKA GROVE
INDIA, PUNJAB HILLS, CHAMBA, CIRCA 1805
£12,600
Auction: 11 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
gouache and gold and silver on paper, narrow blue and wide red border, featuring a palace with a garden and lake in the foreground, variety of trees lying flat on the ground and lake having been destroyed by the various representations of hanuman, crowned monkey-like beings, stealing fruit from the trees, trying to woo a princess, a scene of worship in the upper right hand corner
Dimensions
27cm x 36.7cm
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Dr Alma Latifi, CIE, OBE (1879-1959).
Dr Latifi, an eminent civil servant, collected Indian works of art from the 1930s to the 1950s. He amassed a substantial collection of Indian paintings from which some paintings were loaned to the Royal Academy exhibition in London entitled, The Art of India and Pakistan, 1947-1948.
Footnote
For reference, see, The Ramayana of Vakmiki, translated by Hari Prasad Shastri, 1953-1959, Sundara Kanda, chapters 38-41.