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The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover: Utka Nayika
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover: Utka Nayika

c. 1760–65
Medium
Gum tempera and gold on paper
Dimensions
Page: 26.3 x 17.8 cm (10 3/8 x 7 in.); Image: 25.2 x 16.6 cm (9 15/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Style
Indian Art
Origin
Northern India, Pahari kingdoms
Institution
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

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Provenance

Public
?–1984

(Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Ralph and Catherine Glynn Benkaim)

1984–2001

Ralph Benkaim [1914–2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA

2001–2018

Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA, partial sale and gift to the Clevelan...

2018–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

(Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Ralph and Catherine Glynn Benkaim) Ralph Benkaim [1914–2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA, partial sale and gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Sourced Overview Evidence

In the hilly and verdant landscape all around her, birds and animals are all in pairs—even many of the trees have doubles—but she remains alone, waiting on a bed of leaves for her lover to arrive. She has no way of knowing when he will come, like the devotee has no way to know when god will arrive and bring salvation and bliss.

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 4 structured provenance events · 2 structured exhibitions.

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