KRISHNA AND THE GOPIS IN A FOREST CENTRAL INDIA, MADHYA PRADESH, CIRCA 1780

KRISHNA AND THE GOPIS IN A FOREST CENTRAL INDIA, MADHYA PRADESH, CIRCA 1780 Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. Image: 7 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (18.4 x 31.1 cm); Folio: 9 7/8 x 14 1/4 in. (25.1 x 36.2 cm) Footnotes: By a small white shrine, in a lush woodland meadow, the gopis offer Krishna sweet-scented flowers. Their garments alternate with complimentary colors and designs in harmony with the surrounding trees and shrubs. A closely related composition from a Baramasa series can be found in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, (EP3.1969). Another from that series is published in Dwivedi, Barahmasa, New Delhi, 1980, pls. 112-3. Published Robert J. Del Bontà, Divine Visions Worldly Lovers: Highlighting Indian Paintings from the Collection of Barbara Janeff, San Francisco, 2007, p. 53, no. 24. Exhibited Divine Visions Worldly Lovers: Highlighting Indian Paintings from the Collection of Barbara Janeff; Bolinas Museum, September 22 - November 11, 2007; Mills College Art Museum, June 18 - August 3, 2008. Provenance Lois Ehrenfeld Gallery, San Francisco, before 1992 Collection of Barbara Janeff, San Francisco, 1992-2014 Bonhams, New York, 17 September 2014, lot 111 Conley Harris Collection, Boston For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing