LOT 139 The Dance of Shiva and Kali Guler or Kangra, mid 19th Century
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346 x 244 mm.
The Dance of Shiva and Kali Guler or Kangra, mid 19th Century
gouache and gold on paper, inner border with stylised geometric motifs on an orange ground, light pink flecked outer border, verso four lines of nagari text 346 x 244 mm.
|This painting is related to a similar example in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (accession number. 82.141). The subject depicts Kali and her attendants dancing to the music played by Shiva and his ganas. Kali is the most powerful shakti of Shiva; a ferocious and terrifying personification of time. In this painting she dances with wild abandon, depicted as an emaciated old woman with black skin, wearing a garland of skulls and an animal skin. Her attendants hold weapons and drink skull cups of blood, surrounded by pyres and body parts, indicative of her destructive nature and hunger for flesh and blood to rebuild the energy of the universe.For further discussion of the topic, see Vidya Dehejia, Devi, The Great Goddess, (Washington DC: The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Munich, 1999) pp. 235-236.
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