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  1. A Storyteller Performing with Musicians & Male Dancers

    At #JaipurLiteratureFestival2026

    c1816 #CompanyPainting from #Delhi from the #FraserAlbum (discovered by William Dalrymple in a colonial house in Scotland, UK) & from the collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan sold by Christie's on Oct 28, 2025 for £787,400

    Jaipurlitfest

    #IndianHeritage #Art #Paintings #History #Heritage #BritishInIndia #ArtHistory #IndianHistory #Musicians #Entertainment #Folklore #artoftheday #MastoArt #Histodons

  2. Exceptional results from Sothebys 29th Oct 2025 sale

    This c1850 #Sikh #Painting by Bishen Singh #Amritsar or #Lahore of 'Maharaja Ranjit Singh of #Punjab, #India in Procession, Riding on an Elephant through a Bazar' sold for £952,500 (est £200,000)

    The French inscriptions indicate that this #Art was commissioned by French Army Generals working with the #SikhEmpire as advisors against #EastIndiaCompany

    #ArtHistory #IndianHeritage #IndianArt #History #Heritage #ArtofTheDay #Histodons #MastoArt

  3. The Sothebys sale of 30th April 2025 presents a rare opportunity to acquire a c1760 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting with exceptional provenance & exhibition history attributed to the celebrated #Pahari #Artist #Nainsukh of #Guler #HimachalPradesh

    Estimate £40,000-60,000

    'Raghunath Pathania, a Holy Man'

    #IndianHistory #Art #Heritage #ArtOfTheDay #Painting #ArtHistory #IndianHeritage #History #MastoArt #Histodons #Punjab Hills #India #Paintings

  4. 'Two Caparisoned Elephants' from the Louisa Parlby Album, c1795 #CE #CompanyPainting from #Murshidabad #India sold by Sotheby's on March 20th for $53,340
    Louisa was the wife of Col. James Parlby, an Engineer with the #EastIndiaCompany at #Bengal

    The 'B' on the #Elephant may refer to Edward Eyre Burgess, a Judge at Murshidabad in 1772 AD who travelled around with pomp & ceremony

    #ArtHistory #BritishInIndia #IndianHeritage #Heritage #History #IndianHistory #Art #artoftheday #MastoArt #Histodons

  5. 'A Prince Drinks Water Drawn from a Well by Village Maidens'
    On #WorldWaterDay (March 22)

    c1770 CE Provincial #Mughal #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Lucknow #Awadh sold by Sothebys on March 20 for $ 9525

    Another good news as summers approach: #Mangoes on the tree are almost ripe for harvesting!

    #IndianHeritage #ArtHistory #Art #History #Heritage #WaterDay #Mango #Entertainment #IndianHistory #MughalArt #Painting #SummerVibes #SummerTime #ArtOfTheDay #Histodons #MastoArt

  6. Some drawings I've made recently, not completely done but good enough to post lol I hope I can find a friend or two that enjoys art as a whole as much as I do🙂
    #artofmastodon #artoftheday #seattleartist #PencilSketches #artoftheday

  7. Gold!
    For #ArshadNadeem of #Pakistan

    And, a Silver for #NeerajChopra of #India

    Congratulations to both for winning #Javelin at #Paris2024 #OlympicGames

    'A Trooper of Skinners Horse holding a Javelin', c1815 CE #CompanyPainting from Hansi, #Haryana from the Carlton Rochell collection sold by Sotheby's on 27th October 2021 for £107,100

    #IndianHistory #ArtHistory #Art #artoftheday #Paris2024Olympic #IndianHeritage #BritishInIndia #Paintings #History #Heritage #Painting #MastoArt #Histodons

  8. Commissioned by Nawab Asaf al-Daula of #Awadh as a part of a famine relief project in 1784 CE, the Bara Imambara at #Lucknow #India is an important place of celebration by #Shia #Muslims during #Muharram

    This c1800 CE #CompanyPainting of the Complex is now at The Metropolitan #Museum of #Art, New York #TheMet

    Martyrdom of #imamhussain at #karbala

    #MastoArt #Histodons #artoftheday #IndianHeritage #Painting #ArtHistory #Artist #Heritage #History #Paintings #IndianHistory #Religion #Islam

  9. Gambhira #Raga

    (Not navigating the rain-water logged roads in #Delhi after the #DelhiRains)

    From a c1790 CE #Pahari #Ragamala (Garland of Melodies) #IndianMiniaturePainting by a Master of the first Generation of #Artist after #Manaku & #Nainsukh of #Guler #HimachalPradesh from the “Second Guler Ragamala series” now at #Museum Rietberg, Zurich

    #IndianHeritage #Art #IndianHistory #ArtHistory #Heritage #History #Paintings #artoftheday #IndianClassicalMusic #MastoArt #Histodons #Museums

  10. Swimming Lessons, 2023

    Acrylic, charcoal, cardboard, oil pastel and foil on newspaper mounted on canvas

    Derek Fordjour is an American artist of Ghanaian heritage. Born in Tennessee he now lives in New York City

    #derekfordjour #art #artist #artworld #worldofart #swimminglessons #collage #acrylicpainting #oilpastel #acrylic #ghanian #citypool #painter #peintre #kunst #künstler #painting #paintingoftheday #artoftheday #swimming #thepool #arte #swimmers

  11. From the family workshop of #Nainsukh of #Guler (#Punjab Hills) #HimachalPradesh this c1790 CE #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting of the 9th #Sikh Guru #TegBahadur ji from the Prahlad Bubbar collection.

    On His martyrdom by beheading on this day (24th November) in 1675 CE at #Delhi on orders of the #Mughal ruler #Aurengzeb for his refusal to convert to Islam.

    #IndianHistory #Art #IndianHeritage #IndianReligion #Sikhism #Religion #History #Heritage #Paintings #ArtOfTheDay #Painting #MastoArt

  12. A Kite Maker.

    With mechanisation now, the art of making hand-made #Kites is almost dead

    As a child I used to see #Kite-makers in all the streets of #Delhi.
    Now, its been decades since I saw one

    This c1850-70 CE #CompanyPainting of a #KiteMaker from #Benaras (#Varanasi now)#UttarPradesh ,#India is now at Victoria & Albert #Museum London.

    #IndianHistory #Art #Heritage #Games #Sports #Entertainment #Painting #IndianHeritage #History #ArtOfTheDay #MastoArt #BritishInIndia #Museums #Paintings

  13. #Paintings of such genre rarely come up in the #Art market for auction

    One such #CompanyPainting of a 'Spot-billed or Grey Pelican' dated 1780 CE, by artist Shaykh Zayn al-Din, native of #Patna #Bihar #India & from #ImpeyAlbum of #LadyImpey (Mary Reade), wife of Sir Elijah Impey, the #EastIndiaCompany Chief Justice at #Calcutta (#Kolkata) #Bengal was sold by Sotheby on 25th Oct 2023 for £787,400

    #IndianHistory #IndianHeritage #Painting #MastoArt #ArtOfTheDay #Heritage #History #BritishInIndia

  14. A yellow and white Night Blooming Cereus blossom (Hylocereus undatus) digitally painted from my original photograph for an impressionistic, artistic, abstract presentation.
    #NightBloomingCereus #flower #flowers #art #artwork #MastoArt #MastoArtists #BuyIntoArt #ArtOfTheDay #MastodonArt #fediverse #FediGiftShop #GiftIdeas

    Painted Lady is available for purchase here: hhphotography.pixels.com/featu

  15. Three attempts for the #dcdchallenge : Rosa la Pinup zombie by Lily Lili, Jessica Rabutts by Marylin Oliver and Big and Fat from Orphan League by Christophe de March

    And yes I did auto plagiarism for the art with OC from Lily and Marylin.
    #dcd #drawing #draw #dessinateur #dessin #illustration #doodle #comics #art #fanart #digitalink #artwork #mastart #mastoart #procreate #drawstuff #makingcomics #drawing #digitalart #artoftheday #outofmycomfortzone #pinup #zombie #orphanleague #big #fat