Page 29 - 2020 Sept 22 Himalayin and Indian Works of Art Sotheby's NYC Asia Week

9/2/2020 Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art | Sotheby's

Indian, Hi ma layan & Southeast Asian Works of Art
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 12:00 PM EDT

Lot 318

A THANGKA DEPI CTING PH AGMODRUPA , TIBET, CIRCA 13TH CENTURY
Estimate: 60,000 - 80,000 USD

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION
A THANGKA DEPICTING PHAGMODRUPA
TIBET, CIRCA 13TH CENTURY

26 by 18 ⅝ in. (66 by 47 cm)

the master with closed cropped black hair, hands held in vitakra mudra with chakras painted in gold on the inner palms of the
hands, dressed in a red patchwork robe and cloak of golden floral patterned cloth, seated on a multi-colored lotus supported by a
tiered throne draped with a floral patterned altar cloth, the green throne back against a torana flanked by green elephants
supporting viyalas, the upper border portraying the lineage of the Kagyu masters, the side and lower borders showing scenes from
the previous lives and recent life of the master

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13727.

Provenance
Private Collection, Japan

Literature
Rossi & Rossi, Selection 1994, exh. cat., London, 1994, p. 23, cat. no. 9
Steven Kossak, Painted Images of Enlightenment, Marg Publications, 2010, p. 78, fig. 52
David P. Jackson, Mirror of the Buddha, Rubin Museum publication, 2011, p. 142, fig 5.7

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