KAMASAN, BALI, 1930s

Works from the Donald Friend Collection
Sydney
27 October 2013
183

BIMA SWARGA, IDER-IDER

KAMASAN, BALI, 1930s

pigment on European cotton cloth

18.0 x 206.0 cm

Estimate: 
$1,500 - 2,500
Sold for $1,920 (inc. BP) in Auction 31 - 27 October 2013, Sydney
Catalogue text

This cloth depicts scenes from the Mahabharata relating the journey of Bima to the afterlife to rescue the souls of his father Pandu and stepmother Madri. Bima is accompanied by his two servants and witnesses the punishments meted out to human souls, including people being struck with steel blades(kris) falling from a tree.