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A RED-GROUND THANGKA DEPICTING VAJRAPANI, CENTRAL TIBET, 18TH CENTURY
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04月11日 晚上6点 开拍
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A RED-GROUND THANGKA DEPICTING VAJRAPANI, CENTRAL TIBET, 18TH CENTURY

Published: Pratapaditya Pal, Tibetan Paintings, Ravi Kumar and Sotheby Publications, Basel, 1984, pl. 106.

Distemper and gold on cloth. Finely painted on a vibrant red ground (tselthangka), the richly gilt Vajrapani standing in the militant posture of pratyalidhasana on a lotus base, his raised right hand brandishing a vajra, his left in tarjani mudra. The fierce deity richly adorned in jewelry, a snake draped around his neck, and wearing a tiger skin, and above him sits Adi Buddha Vajradhara flanked by monks from the Gelugspa school. The lower register with a depiction of the donor kneeling towards the Medicine Buddha with Ushnishavijaya behind him.

Provenance: The Private Collection of Lionel and Danielle Fournier, collected in Europe during the 1970s and 1980s. Christie’s Paris, 12 December 2018, lot 19, sold for 37,500 or approx. EUR 42,500 (adjusted for inflation at the time of writing). Private collection in New York, USA, acquired from the above. A private collection in France, acquired from the above. Lionel Fournier (1943-2017) was an important collector and leading expert in Buddhist art from Tibet, Indian, and China, traveling extensively to Buddhist monasteries. He provided the photographs for Pratapaditya Pal’s “A Buddhist Paradise, The Murals of Alchi”, Western Himalayas, 1982. In the winter of 1990-1991, the Fourniers donated a part of their collection to the Musée Guimet, the donation titled “Art ésotérique de l’Himalaya, la donation Lionel Fournier”, with a catalogue by Gilles Béguin. Both Lionel and Danielle Fournier received several awards for their generosity and work, culminating in their reception of the Knight of the Legion of Honor, the highest decoration to a civilian in France.
Condition: Good condition with wear, minor soiling, some creasing with associated minor losses. The gold exceptionally well-preserved. The frame in excellent condition.

Dimensions: Image size 67 x 45 cm, Size incl. frame 89 x 52.5 cm

With a modern museum-quality red-lacquered wood frame.

This splendid red and gold painting (mtshal thang) portrays the terrifying Vajrapani. He is completely golden in color with just some snake-ornaments and his tiger skin accentuated in brown and black. The painting sees a fine overall brushwork and delicate drawing of all figures.

Literature comparison:
Compare the gilt-painted flames on a related red-ground thangka of Guru Dragmar, 77 x 54 cm, dated 17th-18th century, in the Musée Guimet, published in Nathalie Bazin (ed.), Rituels tibétains: Visions secrètes du Ve Dalai Lama, Musée Guimet, Paris, 2002, cat. no. 48, p. 105. Compare a related red-ground thangka of Padmasambhava dated to the 17th century in the Field Museum of Natural History, accession number 100439.

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