EASTERN TIBET, 19TH CENTURY

Name: A PAINTING OF AMITAYUS
Brand: EASTERN TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
Price: 4000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 5,040

Estimate

USD 6,000 - USD 8,000

Closed: 28 Sep 2023

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A PAINTING OF AMITAYUS

EASTERN TIBET, 19TH CENTURY

Price Realised USD 5,040

Closed: 28 Sep 2023

Price Realised USD 5,040

Closed: 28 Sep 2023

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33¹⁄₂ x 22⁷⁄₈ in. (85.1 X 58.1 cm.)

Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 25018.

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Lot Essay

This painting of Amitayus, painted in a distinctly Eastern Tibetan style, depicts the deity of long-life at center, with vibrant crimson skin and supporting the vase with both hands. He is backed by a green nimbus and multicolored aureole with a ring of lotus blossoms arcing behind him. The landscape, painted with a high horizon line and several mound-shaped mountains in the typical Kham manner, is filled with various deities and figures, including Ushnishavijaya and White Tara at either side of his throne, the bridge-maker Tangtong Gyalpo, bearded and holding a vase, just above the central figure, with Shakyamuni Buddha above him, and a Sakya lama at top left and Vajrayogini at top right; the rest of the composition is filled with emanations of Tara. A small, -like figure seated on a deer is depicted within a cave towards the lower right corner.