Haragauri (Siva in bi-sexual form). Artist(s): Kali Charan Ghosh (1844-1930)
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Painting of a religious subject. Haragauri (Siva in bisexual form). By a patua, Kalighat, c.1890. Water-colour; 130 by 90 mm. Presented to W.G. Archer by Howard Hodgkin, London, 1961. Purchased 1974. Note: For other examples from the same series acquired in 1961 from Howard Hodgkin by the ...
Three ‘gods’ on lotuses: the centre one with two heads in profile and with four arms, the left standing and facing right, the right seated with face three-quarter view. Note: Interpreted by Jogendra Citrakar of village Jogidih, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas, as Visnu, Brahma and Siva but r...
Visnu , Brahma and Siva seated side by side on a cot. Below, Krishna fluting with Radha. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
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Visnu, Brahma and Siva seated side by side on a cot. Below, Krishna fluting with Radha, a flowering tree on either side. Inscribed in Bengali characters: ‘ras lila’ (play of delight).
Part of a scroll painting depicting the goddess Kali. By a jadupatua of Jamtara subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1930. Water-colour; width 290 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1945. Purchased 1974. The goddess Kali, black-skinned with four arms, holding two knives and a sever...
The Jagannatha trio installed in majesty in a shrine with below them three priests.
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The Jagannatha trio installed in majesty in a shrine with below them three priests. Siva, white-skinned and wreathed with snakes, reveres them on the left, Brahma four-armed, four-headed and yellow skinned, reveres them on the right. At the bottom is the untouchables’ image of Jagannatha, situ...
The Jagannath trio installed in majesty in a shrine with below them three priests.
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A similar version of the same subject, substituting a lamp for the small black-skinned devotee beside the dancing Krishna. 275 by 245 mm. Note: The meaning of the epithet ‘Sudarsana’ in the name Sudarsana Cakra is either ‘handsome’or’keen-sighted’, the latter perhaps a reference to its power o...