A TANTRIC DEPICTION OF A HINDU GODDESS (DEVI)
Possibly Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, Eastern India, second half 20th century

Opaque and acrylic pigments on cru cotton cloth, the vertical composition depicting a Hindu goddess surrounded by tantric symbols, wearing an encrusted pointy crown, holding two black snakes and two severed heads in each of her hands, squashing an evil dwarf, solar and lunar symbols painted on the upper corners, set within black and white rules and ochre yellow and gray borders, 76cm x 55cm.