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PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN CORPORATE PROVENANCE The iconography is based on a poem, Bodhisattva
COLLECTION Avadanakalpalata, composed by the Kashmiri
Sotheby’s New York, March 28, 2006, lot 138.
THIRTEEN WORKS WITH poet Kshemendra in 1052, and concerned with
SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA AND SCENES LITERATURE the deeds of self-sacrifice of the Buddha in
FROM THE AVADANAKALPALATA Blanche Christine Olschak and Geshé Thupten previous lives leading up to his enlightenment.
Wangyal, Mystic Art of Ancient Tibet, Boston, The composition of the series is based on a
Tibet, 18th/19th Century design of the Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne (1700-
1987, pp. 72-3.
the important set of thirteen paintings David P. Jackson, A History of Tibetan Painting, 1774), a Karma Kagyu master and artist from
from a series of thangkas illustrating the Vienna, 1996, pp. 265, 269-70. Kham in eastern Tibet. Having traveled to Nepal
and India, he expressly portrayed his Avadana
Avadanakalpalata of Shakyamuni Buddha, the Hugo E. Kreijger, Tibetan Painting, The Jucker scenes using Indian style of dress, landscape and
first painting with Buddha in vajraparyankasana Collection, Boston, 2001, p. 34-7, no. 4. palaces. He further claimed that he combined
and bhumisparshamudra on a high lion throne
with elaborate torana and parasol above, seated old and current Tibetan painting styles but made
different in numerous ways. For a full discussion
before an assembly of monks, guardians and on the life and work of Situ Panchen; see Jackson,
bodhisattvas gathered around a crystal bowl of 1996, pp. 259-87.
jewels, offerings and the dharmachakra, and a
further twelve paintings depicting scenes from
the Buddha’s previous lives set in open landscape
with mountains, palaces, lakes and temple
compounds
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 89104.
39¾ by 21⅞ in. (101 by 141 cm.) each, [13]

$ 200,000-300,000

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