?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
G.M. SOLEGAONKAR (1912-1986)
SEE INDIA / AJANTA FRESCOES CAVE TEMPLES. 1934.
39 1/2x25 inches, 100 1/4x63 1/2 cm. Bolton Fine Art Offset Litho, Bombay. Condition B+ / B: tears and tape-repaired tears at edges, some slightly into image and lower text; losses, creases and abrasions in margins; abrasions along right side of image; pin holes in corners. Paper.
Discovered in 1817, the frescoes of the Ajanta caves were created between the 2nd century B.C. and the 7th century A.D. Within a complex of 29 caves, the frescoes serve as a picture book to teach novices of the various incarnations of the Buddha. Religious in nature and artistically complex, the paintings cover the walls and ceilings of chapels, temples and monasteries which are all carved into the side of a ravine.
