Kapaladharahevajra distemper on cloth Tibeto-Chinese

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Description

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

Kapaladharahevajra in union with his prajna Nairatma surrounded by ten multi-armed deities in a mountain landscape with Atisa and two disciples above.

Provenance

Robert van Gulik Collection

Literature

Hugo E. Kreijger, Godenbeelden uit Tibet, Amsterdam, 1989, p. 63

Hugo E. Kreijger, Tibetan Painting, The Jucker Collection, Boston, 2001, p. 112, no. 41

Catalogue Note

This painting and its pair, lot 107 above, were collected in Beijing by the renowned Dutch author, diplomat and sinologist Robert van Gulik (1910-1967).