
Mark Rasmussen
International Director
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西藏東部 八蚌風格 十九世紀 白度母唐卡
This elegant thangka bears the hallmarks of the Palpung style developed by Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne (1700-1774). Compare the minimalist treatment in a thangka of Padmasambhava in Essen & Thingo, Die Götter des Himalaya, Basel, 1989, no. I-64. Also compare a sublime White Tara featured: www.himalayanart.org/items/59633. White Tara was of special significance to Situ, who is recorded to have painted her many times.
Thangkas like the present lot formed the inspiration for a group studied by Linrothe, which were composed by the Fourteenth Karmapa Thegchuk Dorje (1798–1868) in Ladakh, on the other side of Tibet (see Jackson, The Place of Provenance, New York, pp. 181-211, figs. 9.18-9.29).
Referenced:
HAR - himalayanart.org/items/31522
Provenance:
Private Collection, Washington, D.C. since 1991