Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Museum
Descent of the Ganges
c. 1700–1710
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Provenance
Public1985– 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
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
The Cleveland Museum of ArtConfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Supernatural Love - Indian Gallery 242 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 1-September 9, 2019). Pahari Paintings: Art and Stories. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 18-August 23, 2026).
The Cleveland Museum of ArtConfidence 100%
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Sourced Overview Evidence
In the upper left, Shiva sits with his wife Parvati on Mount Kailash in the Himalayas. She offers him a cup of wine, but Shiva looks down intently at the holy man Bhagiratha. He has stood on one leg for 1,001 years to obtain the gift of the Ganges River, which flows from Shiva’s topknot of hair. A dedicated devotee can divert the god’s attention, even from his beautiful wife and a cup of wine.<br><br>By Mount Kailash is the icy Lake Manasarowar, still a major pilgrimage place for followers of Shiva. Hoping to earn the god’s favor, devoted practitioners perform acts of rigorous physical discipline.
The Cleveland Museum of ArtConfidence 100%
Evidence state
Observed sales: 0 · Comparable Sales: 0 · Provenance: 2 · Exhibitions: 2.
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