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LOT 2670
Indian Framed Watercolour Painting
20TH CENTURY A.D.
10 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. (396 grams, 26 x 19 cm).
A rare watercolour painting showing a European woman seated in a bed against a cushion framed by an open window, wearing a hat and a dress pulled down at the chest exposing her breasts; broad red border; mounted in a glazed wooden frame. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s.
The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
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