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104 PROVENANCE:
A PAINTING OF ARHAT KANAKABHARADVAJA
TIBET, 19TH CENTURY The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, acquired in New York,
11 August 1997
The elder seated in dhyanasana on a bed of green leaves, wearing red Rubin Museum of Art, gifted from the above in 2004
and orange robes with gold geometric designs, the serene expression
gazing downward right with a wispy beard and mustache surrounded PUBLISHED:
by a green halo, backed by a blue cushion with gold pattern, with a
table and kneeling monk to his left, a fgure with a tiger by a fowing Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), item no. 293
river in the foreground, with Tsongkhapa at top center
Opaque pigments and gold on textile 65
23æ x 15Ω in. (60.3 x 39.4 cm.)
$25,000-35,000
