Lot 146
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Hyagriva distemper on cloth Tibet

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Description

  • Hyagriva
  • distemper on cloth
  • 17 1/2 by 13 in. (44.5 by 33 cm.)
The fire-red dharmapala in pratyalidha with eight legs trampling multi-colored snakes, with six arms and three ferocious heads, green horse-heads above, wearing flayed human and elephant skin capes, with a garland of severed heads and a tiger skin dhoti, set against an aureole of flames in a snow-capped mountain landscape and flanked by Vajrapani and Garuda, dharmapala below, with Maitreya, Tsong Khapa and Padmasambhava above.

Literature

Hugo E. Kreijger, Tibetan Painting, The Jucker Collection, Boston, 2001, p. 106, no. 38