A SMALL COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS

A SMALL COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS
19TH/20TH CENTURY

Comprising: a depiction of Krishna and Yashoda in an interior, and another of a beauty reading a letter, both with red seal marks; another of two deities in a garden, with calligraphy underneath; two Persian-style miniature paintings, one of a horse rider with falcon, on a bright green ground; the other with a beauty standing in a garden; together with a Chinese painting of a Chinese scholar, with a long line of calligraphy beside him, 46cm x 21cm max. (6)

Provenance: from the collection of Norman Blount, 1875-1930. Norman 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.


印度畫 一組六件
十九/二十世紀
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。