GURU GOBIND SINGH, SECOND HALF OF 20TH CENTURY

Oil on card, laid down on board, depicting a seated Guru Gobind Singh wearing a bejewelled yellow dress and holding an arrow and bow in his hands while a falcon perched on a tree branch.
Guru Gobind Singh ( 1666 –1708) born Gobind Das or Gobind Rai was the tenth Sikh Guru, a spiritual master, warrior, poet and philosopher. When his father, Guru Tegh Bahadur, was executed by Aurangzeb, Guru Gobind Singh was formally installed as the leader of the Sikhs at the age of nine, becoming the tenth and final human Sikh Guru.