ATTRIBUTED TO ABANINDRANATH TAGORE (1871-1951)

ATTRIBUTED TO ABANINDRANATH TAGORE (1871-1951)
KRISHNA AND YASHODA
C.1900-30

An Indian painting, watercolour on card, depicting the God and his foster mother sitting by a fire; both holding an oil lamp and pouring oil into the fire, with metal vessels surrounding them; the reverse with a paper label, probably from an exhibition catalogue, reading: '43. Krishna and Yasoda. (Lent by Dr. A.K. Coomaraswamy D.Sc.) Immediately after his birth, Krishna was taken away by his father Vasudeva, and left in charge of Yasoda in place of a daughter born to her the same night.', and inscribed 'Norman Blount' in pencil; mounted on card, 25.5cm x 22.5cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Norman Blount, 1875-1930. Blount was a jute broker, as well as the joint secretary (together with Abanindranath Tagore) of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, which was founded in 1907 in Calcutta, with Lord Kitchener the Society’s President. Previously in the collection of Dr A K Coomaraswamy (1877-1947). Coomaraswamy was a Ceylonese metaphysician and Indian art historian sometimes described as 'the groundbreaking theorist who was largely responsible for introducing ancient Indian art to the West'.

阿巴寧哲納·泰戈爾（款，1871-1951）
黑天
1900-30年代
來源：諾曼·布朗特（1875-1930）收藏。諾曼布朗特曾是一個黃麻經銷商，與藝術家泰戈爾一起擔任了印度東方藝術協會的聯合秘書（1907年於加爾各答成立），而霍雷肖•赫伯特•基奇納元帥(1850-1916)為協會主席。