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PROPERTY FROM THE YANG FAMILY COLLECTION
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A PAINTING OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI WITH JATAKA TALES
TIBET, 18TH CENTURY
Image 33Ω x 21æ in. (85.1 x 55.2 cm.)
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
Property of a lady; Sotheby’s London, 14 May 2014, lot 378.
LITERATURE:
Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 24738.
Painted in the New Menri style developed by Choyang Gyatso in 1645, the
present painting depicts Buddha Shakyamuni surrounded by vignettes
depicting various Jataka tales from the compendium of tales authored by the
Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339). The present work was likely part
of a larger set depicting the hundred Jataka tales, with each painting centered
by an image of Buddha Shakyamuni. Here, the historical Buddha is depicted
seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with his hands held in the teaching gesture,
dharmachakramudra. The rich palette of greens and blues, evocative of
Chinese landscape paintings, indicates the work is a product of the eighteenth
century, when diffusion of artistic styles between Tibetan and Chinese culture
was perhaps at its zenith.

西藏 十八世紀 《佛本生故事》
來源:
女史珍藏, 倫敦蘇富比, 2014年5月14日, 拍品編號378
出版:
“喜馬拉雅藝術資源” (Himalayan Art Resources), 編號24738

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