Depicting a monkey-headed figure conversing with a man seated on a floral carpet, pleasuring himself, while two women observe them, within black ruled lines and pink speckled borders, the verso with inscription in black devanagari script, shri kali yuga praman + 432000 kali yug veetya hai/ 4982 varatya hai + shesh kali yug 427018 yeh varatna hai + shambhuyata(?) shubham shubham ("a folio from the Kali Yug, the age of vice, which lasts 432,000 years/ 4982 years have passed + 427018 years of Kali Yug remain"), with protective fly-leaf inscribed with kali yug
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper
10 x 6 7/8 in. (25.6 x 17.5 cm.)

76.360: Doris Wiener, New York, 1976.

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Another painting from this series depicting Dvapara Yug, the age preceding Kali Yug, with a similar inscription on the reverse, sold at Christie’s London, Arts of India, 25 May 2017, lot 62.