LOT 0374 A PAINTING OF MAHAKALIKA
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folio31.8×24.1cm;image22.2×14.9cm
拍品描述:来源 Christie's London, 10 June 2015, lot 70. Kali, the embodiment of the destructive power of time, stands astride the body of Shiva, representing the destroyed universe. Her tongue struck out, she is naked, save for a belt of hands and a necklace of skulls. Her nakedness is a sign of her purity and she holds a severed head, symbolic of human ego. Only jackals and vultures circle the funeral pyres acting as Kali's base. Kali is painted face forward rather than in profile, an unusual depiction also seen in an earlier Mandi painting from the Ludwig Habighorst Collection, sold at Christie's London, 27 October 2022, lot 87. The distinctive elaborate margins of this work with cusped cartouches containing attendants of Kali and associated animals are similar to those found on a painting of Raja Isvari Sen of Mandi worshipping Shiva attributed to artist Sajnu, see W.G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London, 1973, fig. 46, p. 275.
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