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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR.
JOHN MANN SOLD TO BENEFIT THE CENTER OF
SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
A THANGKA DEPICTING AN ARHAT
TIBET, 16TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13102.
28½ by 19¾in., 72.4 by 50.2 cm
PROVENANCE
Rudi Oriental Arts, New York City, 1960s.
Compare this work with several other thangkas
from the same series of Arhat paintings in
public and private collections, see the Arhat
Kanakavatsa and an unidenti ed Arhat in the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (acc. nos.
M.83.105.19 and M.77.19.9); the Arhat Bhadra
from the Zimmerman Family Collection, now
in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (see
Pratapaditya Pal, et al, Art of Himalayas: Treasure
from Nepal and Tibet, New York, 1991, pp. 158-
9, cat. no. 91 and VMFA acc. no. 2001.6); and
the Arhat Vanavasin formerly in the Robert H.
Ellsworth Collection (HAR item no. 31308).
$ 6,000-8,000
大啷ġġġ⋩ℕᶾ䲨ġġġ⮲侭Ⓒ⌉
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