Lot No. 1: Dutch Bengal School

Kali with Shiv

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: Circa 1880-1900s
Size: 40 x 30 inches
Place: Kolkata

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3,00,000 - 5,00,000

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3600-4800

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Dutch Bengal School

Kali with Shiv

Size: Image size: 34.8 x 25 inches, Frame size: 40 x 30 inches

In Original frame.
This painting depicts the Goddess Kali with God Shiva beneath her feet.

A riveting oil on canvas, of the image of the goddess Kali, dancing on her male consort Shiva. She is shown four-armed, as the black goddess, dripping with blood and her tongue sticking out. In her lower left hand she holds a severed head. She is painted against a moss green background, jewels hang in the form of long necklaces that seem as tall as her, but its the garland of skulls that points to the precision of the composition and the narrative of the Bengal School in the Dutch tradition of early European masters realist style.

Devi Mahatmya
The worship of a kali goddess as the source of life and fertility has prehistoric roots, but the transformation of that deity into a Great goddess of cosmic powers was achieved with the composition of the Devi Mahatmya (Glory of the goddess), a text of the fifth to sixth century, when worship of the female principle took on dramatic new dimensions. The goddess is not only the mysterious source of life, she is the very soil, all-creating and all consuming.

Goddess Kali makes her 'official' debut in the Devi-Mahatmya, where she is said to have emanated from the brow of Goddess Durga (slayer of demons) during one of the battles between the divine and anti-divine forces. Etymologically Durga's name means "Beyond Reach". She is thus an echo of the woman warrior's fierce virginal autonomy. In this context Kali is considered the 'forceful' form of the great goddess Durga.

Goddess Kali's blackness symbolises her all-embracing, comprehensive nature, because black is the colour in which all other colours merge; black absorbs and dissolves them. 'Just as all colours disappear in black, so all names and forms disappear in her' (Mahanirvana Tantra). Or black is said to represent the total absence of colour, again signifying the nature of Kali as ultimate reality. This in Sanskrit is named as nirguna (beyond all quality and form). Either way, Kali's black colour symbolizes her transcendence of all form.

Provenance : Collection of Gentleman.

Some restoration and wax lining on canvas.

	Nickname	Amount(Rs)	Type	Date & Time(IST)
1	anon0262	931700.00	Regular	11-10-2023 06:10:26 PM IST
2	anon0119	847000.00	Regular	11-10-2023 06:10:26 PM IST
3	anon0262	770000.00	Regular	11-10-2023 06:10:59 PM IST
4	anon0119	700000.00	Regular	11-10-2023 06:10:59 PM IST
5	anon0262	435000.00	Regular	11-10-2023 06:10:17 PM IST
6	anon0262	435000.00	Regular	11-10-2023 06:10:54 PM IST
7	anon0119	395400.00	Regular	10-10-2023 01:10:05 PM IST
8	anon0191	359400.00	Regular	07-10-2023 12:10:29 PM IST
9	anon0119	326700.00	Regular	06-10-2023 04:10:16 PM IST
10	anon0260	297000.00	Regular	03-10-2023 04:10:48 PM IST

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Lot No. 1: Dutch Bengal School

Kali with Shiv

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Dutch Bengal School

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