Enrica Medugno
Senior Sale Coordinator
Lot 183*
A scene from a Ramayana series (the 'Second' Guler Ramayana), depicting the battle between the monkeys, directed by Rama, and the demon army outside the walls of Lanka Guler, circa 1790-1800
12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £23,040 inc. premium
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Oliver White
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A scene from a Ramayana series (the 'Second' Guler Ramayana), depicting the battle between the monkeys, directed by Rama, and the demon army outside the walls of Lanka
Guler, circa 1790-1800
Guler, circa 1790-1800
gouache and gold on paper, gold-decorated blue floral inner border, flecked pink outer border
257 x 359 mm.
257 x 359 mm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Private collection, Germany.
For another Ramayana battle scene from the same series, depicting Rama about to kill Ravana at the height of the battle, see the sale in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 25th October 2022, lot 138.
See also Bonhams New York, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art, 11th September 2012, lot 89, in which Rama and Lakshmana confer with the monkey army while the battle rages in the background beneath the golden walls of Lanka.
For two battle scenes from the series in which the large boulders used by the monkeys appear, and which in our painting has meant a violent end for at least two demons, see Sotheby's New York, Important Indian Paintings from the Gloria Katz and Willard Kuyck Collection, 22nd March 2022, lots 59 and 60.
For discussion of the series with other examples, see the footnote to the previous lot.