26 Feb 2016, 08:10 am

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On the rising market for Indian miniatures, Edward Wilkinson, US Director of Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art, commented, “Domestic auction results of 2015 in India testified to a sudden surge in demand for miniatures, indicating that now is the time to buy, before the rising tide continues to increase the price one must pay for quality.”
Leading the sale, is a beautiful painting from the famed Kangra Rasikapriya, once in the collection of Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1897-1975). Chughtai, who many consider to be the first significant modern Muslim artist from South Asia was heavily inspired by miniature paintings.
Also formerly from the collection of Abdur Rahman Chughtai, and complementing the Kangra Rasikapriya painting is another of Radha and Krishna from the contemporaneous Guler court. Divine Loveplay Under Moonlight, circa 1810, is estimated at $30,000-40,000.
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Meanwhile from Rajasthan, there is a vibrant painting from an early school, long misattributed to the small Mughal principality of Malwa, that has recently received an explosion of scholarly and market interest.
The sale also features a painting from a celebrated Bhagavata Purana series from Bikaner, circa 1700-10, famed for its truly miniature proportions.
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