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propertY From a north amerICan prIVate
CoLLeCtIon
A PAINTING OF AVALOKITESHVARA
QING DYNASTY, 17TH / 18TH
CENTURY
ink and color on silk, mounted in brocade on
a paper board, the deity seated on a green
and red lotus blossom dressed in robes and
sashes variously painted in red, green, or blue
pigments and patterned with gold leaf, the
body adorned with gilt jewelry including an
elaborate necklace suspending jewels across
the bare chest, armbands, and bracelets, the
proper right arm suspended down with the
wrist resting on the knee and the hand held in
varada mudra, the proper left arm bent at the
elbow and holding a golden ‘pure water’ kundika
containing a long-stemmed lotus, the face
with full cheeks, rosebud lips, and downcast
eyes beneath long thin eyebrows, framed by
long locks of navy blue hair pulled into a high
chignon and falling over the shoulders, an
elaborate gilt diadem crowning the head, a
double mandorla radiating in concentric bands
behind the figure, all against a dark gray ground
height 42⅝ in., 108.3 cm;
Width 25⅝ in., 65.1 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of hovsep pushman (1877-1966).
hovsep pushman was an armenian-born
painter who worked in the United states
for most of his career. he amassed a vast
collection of asian art and often used artworks
from his collection as the subject matter of his
own paintings. the present portrait of Guanyin,
for instance, was used as the background in
pushman’s oil on panel painting titled Goddess
of Mercy, painted ca. 1960 (no. 668 in the
artist’s catalogue raisonné).

$ 10,000-20,000
清十七 / 十八世紀 觀音坐像
設色絹本
來源
Hovsep Pushman (1877-1966) 收藏

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