The Jucker Collection of Himalayan Paintings

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Lot 45
  • 45

Cosmic Purusha Distemper on cloth Nepal

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Description

  • Cosmic Purusha
  • Distemper on cloth
  • 52 by 34 3/4 in. (132 by 88.5 cm.)
The yogin dressed in a rainbow patterned dhoti with lotus roundels depicting the chakra points of the Kundalini, standing on a lotus in a landscape with the guardians of the directions below, siddhas and adepts at either side, white and golden Vasudhara in the sky above.

Literature

Hugo E. Kreijger, Kathmandu Valley Painting, The Jucker Collection, Boston, 1999, p. 100, no. 37.

Catalogue Note

For a full discussion of a very similar painting in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; see Huntington and Bangdel, 2003, p, 232, no. 63; and for another similar painting in the Ford Collection; see Lauf, 1976, pp.164-5, pl. 60.