id:			314365
accession number:	2018.114
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.114
updated:		2025-06-14 14:10:40.478000

The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover: Utka Nayika, c. 1760–65. Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Chamba. Gum tempera and gold on paper; page: 26.3 x 17.8 cm (10 3/8 x 7 in.); image: 25.2 x 16.6 cm (9 15/16 x 6 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2018.114

title:				The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover: Utka Nayika
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creation date:			c. 1760–65
creation date earliest:		1750
creation date latest:		1775
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creditline:			Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Chamba
technique:	Gum tempera and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Page: 26.3 x 17.8 cm (10 3/8 x 7 in.); Image: 25.2 x 16.6 cm (9 15/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Supernatural Love - Indian Gallery 242 Rotation
	opening date:   2019-04-01T04:00:00
	<i>Supernatural Love - Indian Gallery 242 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 1-September 9, 2019).

	title:		Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior
	opening date:   2025-02-14T05:00:00
	<i>Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 14-June 8, 2025).

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PROVENANCE

	(Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Ralph and Catherine Glynn Benkaim)
	date: ?–1984
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	Ralph Benkaim [1914–2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA
	date: 1984–2001
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	Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA, partial sale and gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2001–2018
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2018–
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