Page 76 - Christies Indian and Himalayan Art Sept 2015

117 PROVENANCE:
TWO PAINTINGS OF ARHATS KANAKAVATSA AND GOPAKA
The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, acquired in New York,
TIBET, 17TH/18TH CENTURY 14 December 1996
Rubin Museum of Art, gifted from the above in 2004
The frst depicting Kanakavatsa seated on a cushion, holding a
PUBLISHED:
string of jewels, dressed in multicolored robes, with a bow-shaped
Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), item nos. 547 and 548
mouth and thin moustache, his gaze contemplative and his head

with dark cropped hair, backed by a pink nimbus, with attendants

in the foreground and set amidst a verdant landscape with waterfalls

and fowering trees; the second depicting Gopaka, seated on a thin

cushion, holding a book in his hands, and wearing multi-colored

billowing robes, his animated expression with open mouth, thin

rounded moustache, elongated eyes and dark cropped hair, backed by

a pink nimbus, fanked by two attendants in the foreground, Green

Tara seated on a cloud above right, with a snow lion peeking out

from a cave below, and a building to the left, against a dark blue sky

Opaque pigments and gold on textile

25æ x 21¿ in. (65.4 x 53.7 cm.), the larger (2)

$8,000-12,000

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