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Lot 262

KRISHNA WAKING A SLEEPING RADHA ON A TERRACE, AN ATTENDANT SLEEPING AT HER FEET, ANOTHER PEEPING FROM A CURTAIN, PLANTAIN TREES IN THE BACKGROUND
DEOGARH, IN THE STYLE OF CHOKHA, CIRCA 1820-30

25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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KRISHNA WAKING A SLEEPING RADHA ON A TERRACE, AN ATTENDANT SLEEPING AT HER FEET, ANOTHER PEEPING FROM A CURTAIN, PLANTAIN TREES IN THE BACKGROUND
DEOGARH, IN THE STYLE OF CHOKHA, CIRCA 1820-30

gouache and gold on paper, green inner border, gold-sprinkled pink outer border, trimmed along vertical edges
248 x 179 mm.

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Provenance
Indar Pasricha, London, exhibition, June 1989, no. 27, where acquired by a previous owner (attributed to Chokha).

The painting is executed in the style of Chokha, who after working for a decade at Udaipur returned to Deogarh in 1811. His son Baijnath continued into the 1820s, and as late as the 1840s. For related examples of their work, see: S. C. Welch, A Flower From Every Meadow, New York 1973, no. 24; M. C. Beach, R. N. Singh, Bagta and Chokha: Master Artists at Devgarh, Zurich 2005, p. 92, fig. 111; and for a work in their style, dated 1820-30, see Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch, Indian Painting 1600-1870, New York 2012, p. 54, no. 25.

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