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The Collection / Asian Art

Mahakali
1980
Y. G. Srimati Indian

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In January 1980 Srimati began a large-scale


work devoted to the goddess Kali. In her diary
entry for May 19, she wrote: “I painted the whole
day and completed the painting Maha Kali.
Thank God Mother has blessed me.” Mahakali is
a powerful cosmological evocation of the
mighty goddess, a vision of frightful energy
wrought through devotion. The ten-armed Kali
strides across a turbulent landscape, a skirt of
human skulls rattling at her waist. Srimati
described being awakened at night by the
crushing sounds of the skulls in Kali’s skirt and
hearing them until she finished the painting.
The degree of the artist’s emotional immersion
in the imagery of Kali is evident in the finished
work, a painting of great authority that conveys
an almost subliminal understanding of the
power of the goddess.
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Artwork Details

Title: Mahakali Dimensions: Image: 29 1/4 × 21 7/8 in. (74.3 × 55.6 cm)

Artist: Y. G. Srimati (Indian, 1926–2007) Classification: Paintings

Date: 1980 Credit Line: Gift of Michael Pellettieri, in memory of Y. G. Srimati, 2009

Culture: India Accession Number: 2009.211

Medium: Watercolor on paper Rights and Reproduction: © 2009 M. Pellettieri

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South Asia and the Himalayan Region, 1900 A.D.-present

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