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A NARRATIVE SCROLL PAINTING OF DEVNARAYAN, PABUJI KI PHAD, RAJASTHAN
奥地利
04月11日 下午5点 开拍
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India, late 19th-early 20th century. Opaque pigments on cloth. Mounted as a hanging scroll. Painted in bold strokes to depict scenes from the lives of the folk deity Pabuji, seated on an ornate throne to the center, holding sword and lotus, and accompanied by three generals. He is surrounded by narrative panels depicting scenes with deities from the Hindu pantheon like Ganesha, Hanuman, Durga, Shiva, and Garuda. Provenance: From the collection of Johannes Schaaf, Germany, assembled mostly between the 1970s and 1990s, and thence by descent. Johannes Schaaf (1933-2019) was a German film, theatre and opera director and actor. Several of his films have been internationally recognized. During the 1960s, he became acclaimed through multiple movie and TV productions. His film Trotta was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. His focus shifted to theater and opera in the 1980s and he worked with many of the leading international opera houses within Europe, and was invited to direct at several renowned opera houses in the United States and Asia.Condition: The work in good condition with expected wear, creasing, small tears and losses, minor fading and flaking to pigments, trimming, some soiling. Dimensions: Image size 100 x 190 cm, Size incl. frame 108 x 202 cmThe Phad depicts the tale of the semi-divine warrior named Pabuji, considered to be an incarnation of God by the Rabaris. In the legend, Pabuji narrates his adventures and while doing so, he often makes an entry into different stories from Indian mythology, as a character. Wandering minstrels (Bhopas) narrate the great tales of Pabuji, in the form of a 4000 verse poem, for the people. The performance takes place through music and song, accompanied by a musical instrument named Ravanhatta. Bhopas recite this 4000 verse epic by memory and this performance goes on for 5 nights, with the phad as the backdrop. Rabaris believe that praying to Pabuji ki Phad fulfills their wishes and cures their cattle of diseases. Professor John D. Smith, in his book The Epic of Pabuji, argues how elderly Bhopas believed that Pabuji defeated Ravana, ''who lived beyond the Indus'', and brought camels as trophies of war. It is a fine example of how over centuries, local folk heroes get entwined with the broader Hindu epics, and then get spun off as epics on their own. Smith believes that Pabuji was a historical character who lived sometime between the 14th to the 16th century in the Marwar region near Jodhpur and over centuries acquired divine status.Literature comparison:Compare a closely related painted narrative scroll of Devnarayan, by Jaravcand Josi, dated 1926, size 817.8 x 125.7 cm, in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, accession number 86.102. Compare a closely related storyteller's cloth, Par or Phad, Rajasthan, mid-20th century, size 150 × 780 cm, in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, accession number 2005.249.

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