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[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork] Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Image of a Kneeling Horned Figure with Staff and Rosary [Image #043]
[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork] Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Image of a Kneeling Horned Figure with Staff and Rosary [Image #043]
Kishangarh, Rajasthan: no date (modern). [#043] Gouache painting on recycled paper. This image shows a kneeling horned male figure holding a staff and a rosary. 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 8 x 10 inches including margins. Corner chips and some paint spots to margins. Small piece of white tape on back. 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.
