Himalayas: The Richard R. & Magdalena Ernst Collection of Important Tibetan Paintings and other Himalayan Works of Art

Himalayas: The Richard R. & Magdalena Ernst Collection of Important Tibetan Paintings and other Himalayan Works of Art

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 29. A rare thangka depicting Mahasiddha Damarupa and Avadhutipa, Tibet, 16th century | 西藏 十六世紀 大成就者札瑪如巴及阿瓦度帝巴唐卡 設色布本.

Property from the collection of Richard R. and Magdalena Ernst | 恩斯特伉儷收藏

A rare thangka depicting Mahasiddha Damarupa and Avadhutipa, Tibet, 16th century | 西藏 十六世紀 大成就者札瑪如巴及阿瓦度帝巴唐卡 設色布本

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December 15, 11:30 AM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 EUR

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Property from the collection of Richard R. and Magdalena Ernst

A rare thangka depicting Mahasiddha Damarupa and Avadhutipa

Tibet, 16th century


distemper on cloth, the mahasiddha Damarupa on the left holding a damaru and kapala, seated on a snow lion throne in discourse with the mahasiddha Avadhutipa, a flowering tree rising behind them with two forms of Chakrasmavara, and surrounded by Buddhas, a Sakya lineage of Indian mahasiddhas and Tibetan hierarchs, monks, and adepts, with an altar table in the lower register laden with offerings next to four-armed blue Mahakala

64 x 53.6 cm, 25 1/4 by 21 1/8 in.

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Collection Richard R. et Magdalena Ernst

Rare tangka représentant Mahasiddha Damarupa et Avadhutipa, détrempe sur toile, Tibet, XVIe siècle

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恩斯特伉儷收藏

西藏 十六世紀 大成就者札瑪如巴及阿瓦度帝巴唐卡 設色布本

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 18332.

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喜瑪拉雅藝術資源,物件編號18332

The painting is one of a series of Sakya Lamdre lineage thangkas that include one in this collection depicting Sakya Pandita and his nephew Chogyal Phagpa (lot 5). Others from the set in museum and private collections include another with two mahasiddhas in the Zimmerman Collection, see Pratapaditya Pal, Art of the Himalayas: Treasures from Nepal and Tibet, New York, 1991, p. 164, pl. 95: one depicting two Sakya hierarchs in the Rubin Museum of Art, see Marylin M. Rhie and Robert A. F. Thurman, Worlds of Transformation, New York, 1999, p. 287: another in a private collection, see Pratapaditya Pal, Tibetan Paintings, Basel, 1984, pl. 37: and another in the Musée Guimet, see Gilles Béguin, Les Peintures du Bouddhisme Tibétain, Paris, 1995, p. 398, cat. 306.