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涅槃寂静 | THE COLLECTION OF DAVID AND NAYDA UTTERBERG (LOTs 1-20)
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BUNSHI GENSHO (JAPAN, 1555-1620)
Daruma
Signed Nanpo…., sealed Nanpo and two other seals
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
29√ x 13¡ in. (75.9 x 34 cm.)
$40,000-60,000
文之玄昌筆 達磨図
PROVENANCE:
Tokyo Gallery, London
Leighton Longhi, New York, 19 March 1991
LITERATURE:
Japanese Paintings from the 15th-19th century (London: Tokyo Gallery,
1975), fig. 10
Nanpo Bunshi (or Bunshi Gensho) was a Rinzai-sect Zen priest
from Kyushu.
“The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. By this
truth, all appearances are empty. Defilement and attachment,
subject and object don’t exist.”
-Bodhidharma