Indian Painting — Auction Results & Prices
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- In his 16th century Sanskrit text of Ragamala, the Rewa poet Kshmekarna imaginatively personified the various
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,85,000 - The Rajas of Mandi had great veneration for Vishnu, as evident from their regal title ‘Diwan’, symbolizing tha
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,01,000 - The story of Layla and Majnun, a classic tale of love and tragedy in Arabic literature, is deeply intertwined
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,25,000 - Raja Surma Sen's (r. 1781—88) ascension to the throne of Mandi in the midst of political upheaval marked a cru
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 - Ardhanarishvara, a composite and iconic representation in Hindu mythology, symbolizes the divine unity of masc
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 - In the Harivamsa Purana, the demons Madhu and Kaitabha, believed to have originated from Vishnu's earwax, enga
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹5,00,000 - In the painting, Rukma, the brother of Rukmini, is depicted conversing with his allies. On hearing about the a
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 - During the episode of Krishna's abduction of Rukmini, her brother Rukma ardently pursued Krishna on a chariot.
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹2,00,000 - This scene captures the marriage ceremonywithin the courtyard of Krishna's palace. Positioned beneath the mand
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹3,00,000 - Inscribed above each fowl in black devanagari script: "Anvih" and "Kajchini"<br/>Painted in a naturalistic sty
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,40,000 - Among the various reiterations of Valmiki’s Sanskrit epic Ramayana, no other poetic text has left a profound i
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹3,80,000 - On a palace terrace in the dark of the night one of two ladies with an attendant holds a lit firework while on
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹26,00,000 - Reminiscent in shape and format to the beloved series of medallion portraits miniature paintings prerogative o
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹3,80,000 - A gold and black ink scrolling foliate border with geometric designs between black and gold ruled lines on nat
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹7,50,000 - Provenance: Gallerie Liova, Paris. Private UK collection from 1983. <br/>18.6 x 15 in. (47.2 x 38.1 cm.) <br/>
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹23,00,000 - Madonna at prayer with a golden nimbus (halo) surrounding her head and her fingertips touching - a book of gos
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹2,50,000 - In this delightfully ornamental style of painting from Faizabad and Lucknow we witness an enchanting extension
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹2,20,000 - Once part of an Indian Shahnama manuscript produced in the northern domains of the declining Mughal Empire, th
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹7,75,000 - Provincial Mughal<br/>Varanasi - commissioned by Maharaja Udit Narayan Singh, reign 1795-1835, c. 1810<br/>Opa
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹10,50,000 - In 1717, Nawab Murshid Quli Khan, the Mughal governer of Bengal, transferred the capital from Dhaka to Murshid
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 - Distressed in separation, the heroine appears to be a Virahani [distressed, as is classified by Keshavadasa in
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹2,20,000 - Ram and Sita seated on a dais greet his brothers Bharat and Shatrughn who stand respectfully before them near
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹3,00,000 - Verso: Soti Ras 9, written by a brush<br/>Translated inscription at top: How strange is this mundane life, God
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,10,000 - Provenance: Mehra Arts Palace, Red Fort, Delhi. paper<br/>In this scene of sumptuous refinement, Maharana Jaga
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹3,70,000 - Inscribed near the bottom margin in Devnagari, identifying the ruler as Ari Singh Inscribed on the reverse wit
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹6,50,000 - This scene of brutal combat set in a verdant landscape, depicts a mounted warrior riding a horse with a lance
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,25,000 - Set against an olive green background, a prince stands in profile, gazing into the distance as he holds a falc
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹90,000 - Nine intoxicated dervishes prepare a hookah smoking concoction - grinding it, sampling it and then falling asl
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹2,00,000 - Ten lines of Awadhi text written in Devanagari script with black ink; key word and verse makers in red. <br/>T
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹5,25,000 - A blue-skinned Raja stands on a small gold plinth - one foot half-way out of his clog slipper. He holds the sm
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,00,000 - Miniatures of musical inspiration, more specifically ragamala series depicting the evocation of melodies form
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹90,000 - An action-oriented passage from Ramayana depicted in a horizontally-spread composition. Simultaneous represent
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,25,000 - The solitary figure of a nayika against a sombre grey background was meant to symbolize love’s longing. While
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,25,000 - Set on the banks of a river on a white marble terrace is a scene of an ascetic preaching to his disciples. The
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,25,000 - The painting tradition of Kota underwent remarkable change under the patronage of Maharao Ram Singh II. No oth
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 - The central figure of Shri Nathji standing on a white jamdani flanked by two pairs of gopis with their hands h
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 - Verso: Chhaju Ram inscribed in cursive Nagari.<br/>A sizeable number of Udaipur painters, mostly those not in
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹60,000 - Rectangular landscape format, each depicting a Jain Tirthankar born in the five Mahavideh Kshetras in the pres
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 - Rectangular portrait format, each depicting an enshrined Jain Tirthankar of the Atit (Past), under shikaras, f
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 - Two leaves from a manuscript manual for teachers and practitioners of yoga, illustrating fifty of the physical
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹4,70,000 - Provenance: An old inventory label in German from an auction taken place in Leipzig, Germany in 1939. <br/>The
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,10,000 - The first leaf of a manuscript of the Kalakacharyakatha, the most important and popular work of the non-canoni
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹75,000 - Poet Keshav Das’s Rasikapriya (1591), Lover’s Breviary, in Brij Bhasha is a key text on the typecasting of nay
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 - The Hindu divine family of Shiva and his wife Parvati together with their two sons, the god of war Kartikeya a
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹3,20,000 - Inscribed in black in top left Tiparyancha Khel in Marathi (a stick dance similar to Garba)<br/>This rare pain
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹2,20,000 - The octagonal inner domed hall of Taj Mahal represents “the climax of the mausoleum”. In this core of the buil
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹3,30,000 - The autumnal worship of the Great Goddess, held annually, forms the subject for an elaborate depiction on mica
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹4,00,000 - The traditional practice of self-immolation by the widows on their husband’s pyres is a vivid portrayal of the
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,35,000 - Inscribed in Tamil and English: Marriage (2) Pandal<br/>These fascinating vignettes of the social life of sout
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹8,75,000 - Inscribed in Tamil and English: Marriage 3)<br/>Generalized scenes of wedding ceremony were invariably include
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹8,75,000 - Some of the Tanjore-based artist families belonging to the Mochi, leather-making caste migrated in the early -
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹5,25,000 - Priests and devotees belonging to the Shaivite sect line up outside a shrine with an imposing gopuram, gateway
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹8,50,000 - Gouche on machine-made paper<br/>Both the folios have descriptive labels in English<br/>8.6 x 12 in. (21.8 x 3
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,00,000 - The pictorial vocabulary of these icons, hinged on repetitive iconographic templates, was ideally suitable for
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,00,000 - After the fall of Vijayanagar dynasty in 1565, the Nayaks of Madurai established an independent kingdom. King
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,00,000 - The extravagant architectural undertakings of the Nayak rulers of Madurai continued the Vijayanagara tradition
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹1,00,000 - Principally, the Kalighat painters specialized in the depiction of Hindu deities for worship in domestic shrin
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹6,25,000 - In 1888, Kalighat patas were exhibited in the Glasgow International Exhibition, and the volume compiled for th
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹5,25,000 - Each folio has been inscribed in English. Matsya – the Fish incarnation Kurma – the Tortoise incarnation Varah
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹2,30,000 - Numerous forms of Bhairava are propitiated in the occult worship rituals associated with Tantric tradition. Th
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹2,20,000 - The Coronation of Rama is one of the most popular subjects in South Indian painting. The hero of the Ramayana
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹46,000 - The youthful son of Shiva and Parvati is here depicted with his vahana, the peacock, and his spear. Despite hi
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹34,000 - In this scene, the maiden is depicted seated in a European chair on a palace terrace, smoking a huqqa. Reverse
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹43,000 - The youthful figure holds a rose in his right hand while wearing long coat and turban adorned with a sarpech,
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹40,000 - The bejewelled woman is shown adjusting her hat while her right hand rests seductively on her hip, and her bre
Todywalla Auctions · 2024-04-16 · sold ₹85,000 - The four-armed form of the elephant-headed deity is seated on a gold throne with a chhatra (parasol), undernea
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹3,10,000 - The inscription begins with a doha that goes on to describe the khandita nayika. This is followed by a longer
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹2,60,000 - Shringar Rasa, a traditional theme of romantic poetry in Indian literature, in specific, Rasikapriya (connoiss
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹15,00,000 - Ragamala, literally: ‘garland of musical modes’ is one of the most popular subjects of Indian painting. The va
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹2,80,000 - Tantric subjects in Pahari painting are not uncommon, though not as often seen as Vaishnavite themes, or Devi
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹80,000 - The elder grey-haired king Dasarath of Ayodhya sits on a striped carpet - fanned by an attendant holding a mor
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹1,45,000 - Krishna stands barefoot on a low stool (chowki) with his sandals on the floor, wearing a yellow dhoti, brown u
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 - The painting of Manasa depicts the four-armed crowned goddess sitting on a lotus under a domed canopy with She
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹1,50,000 - The blue-coloured deity is depicted sitting in padmasana on a lotus with a raised dais in an arched niche, wit
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹2,60,000 - The word muhurat, while being a measurement of time, also denotes an ‘auspicious time’ to make a beginning. Th
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹1,25,000 - Agni, is the main focus of any Yagna or Homa. Agni travels in his ram driven chariot to all three- Heaven, Ear
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹2,25,000 - This extremely refined painting depicts the month of Agahana in a Baramasa (Songs of the Twelve Months) series
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 - A woman depicted in profile standing in a landscape, wearing translucent peshwaz and grey odhni, a sprig of wh
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 - The page from Gulistan ‘Rose Garden’ of Sa’di is a night-time scene with panels of Urdu text in nasta'liq abov
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹3,50,000 - The yogi, as often depicted, sits in the shade of a banyan tree and has long straggly hair and beard, and his
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹1,10,000 - In a dark forest setting by a silvery river - a nayaka (a valiant lord) dressed as a Mughal prince, calmly aim
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹2,10,000 - A youthful Mughal Emperor Akbar sits with his knees wrapped on a carpeted plinth and beneath a leafy tree next
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹2,10,000 - Todi Ragini depicts a girl in a verdant landscape with trees and hills in the back ground and a lotus filled p
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹2,40,000 - The Goddess Ganga stands atop her vehicle an alligator / Makara on a silvery river. A curving green hilltop an
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹1,00,000 - (Balkand f. 24 verses 45-46) A depiction of the Magh Mela, the annual festival held at Allahabad (Prayag) in t
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 - (Balkand f. 77 verses 296-297) A portrayal of the pivotal moment which caused a once-virtuous king to be trans
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹11,50,000 - (Ayodhyakand f. 99 verses 229-231) Bharat and Shatrughn are overjoyed finally to find Ram at the holy ashram o
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹8,50,000 - (Ayodhyakand f. 127 verses 297-298) Bharat and Shatrughn have been joined at Chitrakut by Dasharath’s queens a
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹6,75,000 - (Aranyakanda f. 29 from the last line of the doha of verse 40 to the chaupai of 42). After learning from the d
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹4,00,000 - At the upper left a messenger speaks with a sakhi (confidante) against the brilliant red backdrop of a pavilio
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹1,00,000 - Depicting a nobleman sleeping in a palace while his horse and elephant with mahout wait outside. The Sanskrit
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 - A black and white piebald horse ridden by an anonymous syce (groom). On the accession of Ari Singh to the thro
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 - A sensitively rendered portait of nimbate (haloed) Maharana, with realistic facial features particularly aroun
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 - This exquisite Bundi - Kotah composition is made up of multiple scenes playing out across the page. At the pic
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹6,00,000 - On a moonlit night on a white palace terrace, birds fly past as a drunken princess, unsteady on her feet and f
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹1,35,000 - The current folios are part of what must have been an extensive series of paintings on the personification of
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹2,60,000 - Raja Jaganath stands facing a young prince - perhaps the future heir to the throne of a thikana in the court o
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 - The scene depicting Rama and Sita sitting on a palace terrace, attended by Hanuman and a fly whisk bearer, an
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹1,85,000 - This painting is dominated by the imposing figure of Jait Singh, and the almost monochrome pale green backgrou
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹2,60,000 - Thakur Surtan Singh of Nimaj (a city to the East of Jodhpur), is depicted here as a young man. He met a violen
Todywalla Auctions · 2023-02-24 · sold ₹55,000
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