A PAINTING OF KALACHAKRA AND VISHVAMATA

TIBETO-CHINESE, 18TH CENTURY

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A PAINTING OF KALACHAKRA AND VISHVAMATA
TIBETO-CHINESE, 18TH CENTURY
With blue-skinned four-faced Kalachakra embracing the yellow-skinned Vishvamata, both standing atop prone figures over a lotus base, he with twelve arms of white, red and blue and she with eight yellow arms, all hands holding various implements, backed by a colorful aureole, surrounded by lineage figures and with skullcups of offerings in the center foreground
16 7/8 x 10 1/8 in. (42.8 x 25.6 cm.)

Provenance

Collection of Willem van Heusden (1913-2009), acquired in the 1950s

Literature

Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), item no. 23390

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Lot Essay

At the top center is Vajrasattva, flanked by Tsongkhapa on the right and white Buddha Vairochana on the left. At the bottom left is a Shambhala King and on the right is the Indian adept, Pandita. Stylistically this work is similar to those painted in the Yonghegong Palace Monastery; see Himalayan Art Resource, item no. 100119 for a closely related example of the same subject.

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