AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: KAMOD RAGINI
INDIA, DECCAN, HYDERABAD, CIRCA 1800
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Auction: 11 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
gouache on paper heightened with gold, gilt-decorated borders with coloured margin rules, depicting a solitary maiden wearing jewellery and dressed in a transparent choli seated under a tree and pulling one of the branches, her hands covered in henna, within a green landscape, a pond with lilies in the foreground, mounted, glazed and framed
Dimensions
Sight size 21.5cm x 14.5cm
Footnote
Kamod Ragini embodies viraha, the poignant emotion of separation and longing. In this painting, Kamod is our heroine, having adorned herself with henna'd hands, she is picking from the tree above. The orange sky suggests it is dawn and that she has been waiting all night in vain for her lover.