AncienT durga STaTue on SaLe

NEW YORK: An around 1000-year-old blackstone sculpture of goddess Durga will be on sale at Christie’s in New York next week.

In the 131 cm black schist sculpture, Durga is seen in the precise moment of spearing Mahishasura.

“It’s quite a dramatic image that captures the decisive moment in the narrative (of the slaying of evil by good),” said Isabel McWilliams, specialist in the Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art department in New York.