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DURGA SLAYING THE BUFFALO DEMON
DURGA SLAYING THE BUFFALO DEMON, PUNJAB, PROBABLY AMRITSAR, INDIA, CIRCA 1900
gouache with ink on folio from an illustrated manuscript, the four-armed goddess depicted riding on her tiger-like lion, attacking the demon who emerges from the decapitated buffalo, the reverse with text in devanagari script, framed
23 x 17.5cm (image)
Provenance: Private collection, London
For closely related paintings from Amritsar in the Museum of Folk and Tribal Art, Gurgaon, see Subhashini Aryan, Unknown Masterpieces of Folk and Tribal Art, Gurgaon 2005, pp.130-131.
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DURGA SLAYING THE BUFFALO DEMON, PUNJAB, PROBABLY AMRITSAR, INDIA, CIRCA 1900
gouache with ink on folio from an illustrated manuscript, the four-armed goddess depicted riding on her tiger-like lion, attacking the demon who emerges from the decapitated buffalo, the reverse with text in devanagari script, framed
23 x 17.5cm (image)
Provenance: Private collection, London
For closely related paintings from Amritsar in the Museum of Folk and Tribal Art, Gurgaon, see Subhashini Aryan, Unknown Masterpieces of Folk and Tribal Art, Gurgaon 2005, pp.130-131.