A COUPLE OF INDIAN IDOLS Painting

I bought them in one of the many trips to India, on the time I was with Sabina. The seller was an old man, who opened his thrift puppets shop on one of the large terraced steps that, in the sacred town of Varanasi, the old Benares, gets down to the dirty Ganga waters, allowing to the swarm of faithful their purifying ablutions. They struck me for their rigid arms position, because I didn’t understand if it were due by a severe admonition rather than a sweet embrace desire. The Hindu deities, on theme of arms, really don’t joke. For example, Maa Darga, the deity representing feminine strength and Mater of the Universe, has even eight arms. After some investigations, I discovered that my couple of idols represented Jagannatha and Balabhadra, Master of Universe the first and his brother the second. But their arms don’t have hands and that was for me very unsettling. I investigated more deeply and I discovered that King Indradyuma appointed to an artist the wood sculpture of the idols. The artist accepted the task, with the clause that nobody will bother him during the job, that would last fourteen days. But the King did not have patience and after fourteen days broke into the space of the sculptor, interrupting his job, that remained forever incomplete. That’s the reason why my idols couple don’t have hands.

Multi-paneled Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:66.9 W x 33.5 H x 33.5 D in

Number of Panels:2

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