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The month of Ashar from a Baramasa series
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This drawing represents Baishakh (April - May). It is one of three preparatory drawings from a set of illustrations of Baramasa poems given by Kathy Burton Jones. The poems, which appear in Devanagari script on the reverse of the drawings, describe the months of the year with a focus on the festivals that ushered in each season. On the obverse, notations in Devanagari script indicate the colors for the finished painting. Each scene centers on the romantic bond between man and woman, a metaphor for life-continuing concepts. Here a couple seated on a platform in a sylvan setting converse amiably.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
[H.C. Mehra] Calcutta (November 16 1953); purchase by L.C. and P. Wyman American couple; gift to Art Complex Museum 189 Alden Street Duxbury (1960s); purchase by Kathy Burton Jones [Norman Hurst] Hurst Gallery 53 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge (2004); gift to Harvard Art Museum (2009).
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Katherine Burton Jones
Title: The month of Ashar from a Baramasa series
Description:
This drawing represents Baishakh (April - May).
It is one of three preparatory drawings from a set of illustrations of Baramasa poems given by Kathy Burton Jones.
The poems, which appear in Devanagari script on the reverse of the drawings, describe the months of the year with a focus on the festivals that ushered in each season.
On the obverse, notations in Devanagari script indicate the colors for the finished painting.
Each scene centers on the romantic bond between man and woman, a metaphor for life-continuing concepts.
Here a couple seated on a platform in a sylvan setting converse amiably.
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