A THANGKA DEPICTING AN ARHAT TIBET, 16TH CENTURY

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13102.

Rudi Oriental Arts, New York City, 1960s.

Accretion, rubbing, creasing, staining, losses to pigment and pigment consolidation overall, as viewable in catalogue illustration. With Tibetan inscription and stupa drawing at verso.
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Compare this work with several other thangkas from the same series of Arhat paintings in public and private collections, see the Arhat Kanakavatsa and an unidentified Arhat in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (acc. nos. M.83.105.19 and M.77.19.9); the Arhat Bhadra from the Zimmerman Family Collection, now in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (see Pratapaditya Pal, et al, Art of Himalayas: Treasure from Nepal and Tibet, New York, 1991, pp. 158-9, cat. no. 91 and VMFA acc. no. 2001.6); and the Arhat Vanavasin formerly in the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection (HAR item no. 31308).