#bengal school

[thejawsdevour]

Benode Behari Mukherjee (Indian) - Valley Between Two Trees (watercolor, 1954)

[hinducosmos]

Untitled (Urvashi, Dancing Girl) Atist: Kshitindranath Mazumdar (1891 - 1975) Signed in Bengali (lower left) watercolor on paper. 11¼ x 7 ½ in. (27.9 x 19 cm.) (via Christie's)

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[niramish]

“Showing the Eid Moon” by Sarada Ukil.

[arjuna-vallabha]

Lotus by Nandalal Bose

[vintageindianclothing]

Leaving Indra’s shining city Where crowds of immortals had gathered, eager to see them, the women found their parasols quite useless as they flew above the sun. Winds blowing against their faces, tossed them about, lotus eyes glazed over with weariness the sun’s hot rays gave the women the glow of wine-flushed cheeks.

From The Journey of the Apsaras, Kiratarjuniya.

Artwork: Kshitindranath Majumdar’s Apsaras. The Bengal School often drew on old Indian themes, here the costumes are a mix and not in the three part from often used for figures from the Epics.

[unmattata]

Krishna and Radha, Sarada Ukil

Source: Kireet Joshi Archives

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Christies

Indian Art Online: Painting the Maharaja

Lot 7Lot will start on  18-May-2017 10:00 AM (EST)

BENGAL SCHOOL, CIRCA 1840

A SEATED PORTRAIT OF RAM CHANDRA LAHIRI, DEWAN OF COOCH BEHAR (1829 - 1842)

Estimate: GBP 2,000 - 3,000

DESCRIPTION

A SEATED PORTRAIT OF RAM CHANDRA LAHIRI, DEWAN OF COOCH BEHAR (1829 - 1842) BENGAL SCHOOL, CIRCA 1840 Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, holding a hookah pipe in his left hand, identification inscription in black devanagari script above 'ram chandra lahiri cooch behar ka wazir', within polychrome floral margins and wide yellow border, mounted The painting 7⅛ X 5¼in. (17.9 x 13.1cm.); the folio 9⅛ x 6⅞in. (23.2 x 17.5cm.) Provenance: Christie's, London, 7 April 2011, lot 284 Please note this lot is the property of a private consignor.