BALI, 1930s

Works from the Donald Friend Collection
Sydney
27 October 2013
176

BHARATA YUDDHA, LANGSE

BALI, 1930s

pigment on European cotton cloth

99.0 x 188.5 cm

Estimate: 
$2,000 - 4,000
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The Bharata Yuddha is the great battle between the Pandawa and Korawa families in the Mahabharata epic.The painting depicts the members of the Pandawaside going off to war including Bima, Arjuna, Yudistira (mounted on elephant) and the subsequent battle with Korawa figures including Drusasana, Dertarasta and Bisma. The distinctive tear-shaped filler motifs(aun-aun) on this painting mark it as a work from outside the main artistic centre of Kamasan.