AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A BHAGAVATA PURANA SERIES: KRISHNA SUBDUES THE BULL DEMON ARISTASURA


MEWAR, CIRCA 1800Opaque watercolor on paper. Folio: 7 x 13 1/4 in. (17.8 x 33.6 cm)
|Against a red background on the left, the citizens of Vrindaban ask Krishna to destroy the bull-demon Aristasura, and against a green background on right, Krishna accomplishes this feat of divine strength, flipping the ruinous bull-demon by his horns.Five other pages from the same series were sold at Sotheby's, London, 27 March 1973, lots 103-7 and Christie's, London, 25 April 2018, lot 97. A further twenty-eight are published by Goswamy and dated 1800 (Indian Paintings in the Sarabhai Foundation), Ahmedabad, 2010, pp.141-6, nos.R45-73. Provenance Private Collection, New York Bonhams, New York, 19 March 2012, lot 1212 Private Collection, Texas