Details
Seated with legs crossed on a waisted lotus base, his left arm resting pendent over his knee and his right hand raised with finger joined to thumb, clad in a dhoti and adorned with a sacred thread, the form backed by a separately-cast openwork aureole with naga hoods and scrolling foliage
614 in. (15.9 cm.) high, inlcuding aureole
Provenance
Kayess Arts, Inc., New York, 3 November 1978.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.
Literature
P. Pal, A Collecting Odyssey, Chicago, 1997, pp. 223 and 339, cat. no. 296.
Exhibited
On loan to Art Institute of Chicago, 1996-2010 (132.1996).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection,” 2 August-26 October 1997, cat. no. 296.
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