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[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork] Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Image of a Four-Armed Goddess Holding Weapons with Severed Head Above [Image #105]
[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork] Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Image of a Four-Armed Goddess Holding Weapons with Severed Head Above [Image #105]
Kishangarh, Rajasthan: no date (modern). [#105] Gouache painting on recycled paper. This image shows a goddess sitting in lotus position. She has four arms and is holding weapons. Her own severed head is above. In the background are what appear to be words or phrases in Devangari script, possibly more decorative than textual. The size of this image is approximately 9 x 7 inches including margins. There is a lot of unrelated writing on the back of the painting with some also in margins of front. Very good.
Joshi Mangal is a painter from Kishangarh in Rajasthan (India). His body of work is based on the artistic styles found in bazaars in his community and inflected by his idiosyncratic taste for sensational images of tantric art. He paints images of tantric goddesses, circular yantra designs, astrological images, various body parts used for divination (hands and feet), and more.