The Sothebys sale of 30th April 2025 presents a rare opportunity to acquire a c1760 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting with exceptional provenance & exhibition history attributed to the celebrated #Pahari #Artist #Nainsukh of #Guler #HimachalPradesh
Estimate £40,000-60,000
'Raghunath Pathania, a Holy Man'
#IndianHistory #Art #Heritage #ArtOfTheDay #Painting #ArtHistory #IndianHeritage #History #MastoArt #Histodons #Punjab Hills #India #Paintings
#Hindu God His wife Parvati & sons #Ganesh, Kartikeya and Nandi the Sacred Bull
c1745 CE #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Guler #HimachalPradesh now at Victoria and Albert #Museum, London
Probably from the family workshop of #Nainsukh & #Manaku (?)
Fear not, I am here!
c1725 CE #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from #HimachalPradesh or #Jammu #India sold by Sothebys on 28th Sept. 2024
#HanumanJanmotsav #HanumanJayanti2025
(Birth Anniversary of #Hindu Monkey-God Lord #Hanuman) is being celebrated today
A Sunday!
And, that time of the week to relax and be with the family
This c1800 CE #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Kangra #HimachalPradesh (#Punjab Hill State) #India of a 'Man Playing Piggy- back with his Child as his Amused Wife Looks Away' is now in the James Ivory collection
In this c1750 CE #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from the #Himalayan #Punjab State of #Mankot #Ramkot (now in #Jammu #India) now at Government #Museum, #Chandigarh) a Nobleman checks out the #TrumpTariffs rollouts on the #LiberationDay (or Aberration Day?)
#Hindu Goddess #Durga fights the Bull Demon #Mahishasura as #Mahishasuramardini in this c1750 CE #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Guler #HimachalPradesh (#Nainsukh #artist family)
#DurgaPuja #Navratri #ChaitraNavratri #HinduNewYear
Navratri ushers in the New Hindu Lunar New Year and the beginning of the year 2082 (also known as Vikram Samvat)
'The lightning is restless as it flashes in the turbulent clouds.
The peacocks announce the mating of earth & sky with their shrill cries.
All lovers meet in the month of Shravana- so then why forsake me my love?'
So goes the footnote to this c1820 #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Kangra #HimachalPradesh #India on Bonhams auction of 20 March 2025
Agony of a Dejected Lover
( #Hindu God Lord #Krishna)
c1780 #Pahari folio from Gita Govinda attributed to a 1st Generation Master after #Artist #Nainsukh from #Kangra or #Guler #HimachalPradesh #India on Sothebys upcoming sale on 20th March 2025
Estimate £300,000-500,000
Composition based on #Raga Gujjari #Ragamala (Garland of Melodies)
An #IndianMiniaturePainting so beautiful that it is someone's screen saver!
(It IS the famous #ArtHistory specialist William Dalrymple's)
#Hindu God Lord #Shiva tests His Archery Skills while riding the Nandi Bull
This astounding c1825 AD #Pahari #Painting from #Guler or #Chamba #HimachalPradesh #India is now at Indian #Museum #Kolkata
#IndianHeritage #Art #IndianHistory #Religion #Hinduism #Himalayas #History #MastoArt #Histodons #Heritage #IndianMythology #Punjab Hill State #ArtOfTheDay
The Manifestation of Sadashiva
c1820 #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Kangra now at Bhuri Singh Museum #Chamba #HimachalPradesh
The inscriptions identify the Heads of #Hindu Lord #Shiva as (l to r): Ishana, Tattvapurush, Sadyojata, Anghora & Vamadev of which Vamadev is more widely known worldwide as associated with Kama Sutra
Today is #Shivratri, His Wedding with Parvati
The Holy Family
#Hindu God Lord #Shiva and Parvati on Mount Kailash with infant #Ganesha on #GaneshChaturthi (Birth of Lord Ganesha)
The Nandi Bull stands behind them
c1800 CE #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from #HimachalPradesh #India on Sothebys auction (17th March 2015)
Vinesh Phogat aims for Gold at #Paris2024 #Paris2024Olympic but gets disqualified as she's found to be 100 grams overweight!
'Wrestlers', c1680 CE Raga Malava #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Basohli #Jammu or #Nurpur #HimachalPradesh #Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) now at Ashmolean #Museum UK
The excessively heavy rains during the past couple of days have washed away many roads in the #Himalayan State of #HimachalPradesh #India making it difficult to travel by road
So, this person in a basket is being raised towards a cliff-top village in this 19th century #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from the Cary Welch collection sold by Sotheby's on 31st May, 2011
Gambhira #Raga
(Not navigating the rain-water logged roads in #Delhi after the #DelhiRains)
From a c1790 CE #Pahari #Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) #IndianMiniaturePainting by a Master of the first Generation of #Artist after #Manaku & #Nainsukh of #Guler #HimachalPradesh from the “Second Guler Ragamala series” now at #Museum Rietberg, Zurich
Finally #DelhiRains & some respite from the sweltering heat (humidity continues to be very high)
In this c1760 CE #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from the large #Guler #HimachalPradesh or #Basohli #Jammu Bhagavata Purana attributed to #artist of 1st Generation after #Nainsukh & #Manaku 'Lord #Krishna & Gopies Shelter from a Storm'
Sold by Christie's on March 20 for $50,500
On my birthday today I got many gifts
But, not the White Hawk which is being presented here by two courtiers to a seated Raja in this c1760 CE #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Punjab Hills #Jammu sold by Lyonand Turnbull on June 12 for £47,701 (Mildred Archer collection)
Happy #FathersDay to me & all other Fathers on #Mastodon
So, this lovely c1790 CE #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting of Raja Goverdhan Chand of #Guler #HimachalPradesh with his Daughter by #Artist #Nainsukh & now at #Chandigarh #Museum & #Art Gallery
So, many coalition political parties in #India are not happy with the distribution of the #Cabinet Portfolios & are discussing the matter with the new Government here in this c1680 CE #Pahari Shangri II #Ramayana #IndianMiniaturePainting from Bahu, #Jammu now at The Metropolitan #Museum (on loan from National Museum, #NewDelhi)
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Family time on a #Sunday
A man plays Piggy-back with his child as his amused wife looks away, probably thinking 'Boys will be Boys'
This c1800 #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Kangra #HimachalPradesh is now in the James Ivory collection
Kangra is a former #Punjab Hill Princely State located in the #Himalayas
