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A PAINTING OF ARHAT BAKULA
TIBET, 19TH CENTURY

Bakula seated on a green stepped throne at top left,
holding a string of beads, with a beard and short-cropped
hair, an attendant fgure behind to his left, within a rock
arch fanked by a tree and Nagasena to the top right,
with Ajita at bottom left and Bharadvaja at bottom right,
the fgure’s name written below each in Tibetan, all set
within a green landscape
Opaque pigments and gold on textile
20º x 13æ in. (51.4 x 34.9 cm.)

$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE:

The Shelley and Donald Rubin Collection, acquired in
New York, 1996
Rubin Museum of Art, gifted from the above in 2006

PUBLISHED:

Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), item no. 378

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A PAINTING OF THE DIRECTIONAL GUARDIANS,
DHRITARASHTRA AND VIRUDHAKA
TIBET OR CHINA, LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Standing on the left, Dhritarashtra, guardian of the East, green in color,
with an open red mouth and bared fangs, his two hands holding a lute,
adorned with an elaborate crown and large gold earrings and wearing a
long multicolored garment, surrounded by a dark blue nimbus, and at
right, Virudhaka, guardian of the South, dark blue in color, his lower teeth
biting down on the upper lip, holding the hilt of a long sword in his hands,
adorned with a gold crown surmounted by a red streamer, and wearing a
long multicolored garment, and a dark green nimbus, both standing atop
a rocky outcropping and surrounded by clouds, with three red buddhas
seated on lotus blossoms in the sky above
Opaque pigments and gold on textile
24º x 18 in. (61.6 x 45.7 cm.)

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE:

The Shelley and Donald Rubin Collection, acquired from Joseph Gerena,
New York, 30 March 1995
Rubin Museum of Art, gifted from the above in 2006

PUBLISHED:

Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), item no. 91

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