Mahakala distemper on cloth Tibeto-Chinese

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Description

Mahakala
distemper on cloth
26 by 17 1/2 in. (66 by 44.5 cm.)

Mahakala stepping vigorously to the right in pratyalidha and accompanied by his fierce female attendants, with Brahmanarupa Mahakala below, and Samatabhadra above flanked by Nagarjuna and a Geluk hierarch.

Provenance

Robert van Gulik Collection

Literature

Hugo E. Kreijger, Godenbeelden uit Tibet, Amsterdam, 1989, p. 6.

Hugo E. Kreijger, Tibetan Painting, The Jucker Collection, Boston, 2001, p. 110, no. 40.

Catalogue Note

This painting and its pair, lot 108, were collected in Beijing by the renowned Dutch author, diplomat and sinologist Robert van Gulik (1910-1967).