拍品编号：PMJG4364

拍品名称：噶举上师

拍品年代：13-14th

拍品尺幅：68 * 55（厘米）

起拍价： 100,000 USD

成交金额： 178,300 USD

折合人民币：178300 USD

拍品类型： 彩唐

拍品地域：西藏

拍品材质：布

拍品主题：人物（复数）

拍卖公司：Bonhams（邦瀚斯）

拍卖专场：The Richard C. Blum and Senator Dianne Feinstein Collection of Himalayan Art（2024-03）

拍卖时间：2024年3月

拍卖地点：纽约

原始编号：731

内容:

A DOUBLE PORTRAIT THANGKA OF TWO KAGYU LAMAS
TIBET, LATE 13TH/14TH CENTURY
Distemper and gold on cloth; verso inscribed with many lines of Tibetan script in black ink arranged within a stupa, consisting of prayers starting with the verse: Om a hum vajra guru padma siddhi hum, which is the seed mantra for Padmasambhava; followed by consecration mantras for Vajrakila, Vagishvara, Manjushri; and Om mani padme hum for Avalokiteshvara; Om vajra pani hum for Vajrapani; followed by the 'ye dharma hetu...' Buddhist creed; and an excerpt from the Pratimoksa sutra.
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 1859
Image: 26 3/4 x 21 5/8 in. (67.9 x 54.9 cm);
With mounts: 41 x 29 1/4 in. (104.1 x 74.3 cm)
Footnotes
西藏 十三世紀晚期/十四世紀 噶舉派二祖師肖像唐卡

Two religious masters from the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism are seated within the center of this brilliant thangka. The teacher on the left is garbed in full monastic robes, whereas the Tibetan figure with long, shoulder-length hair on the right dons a layman's cloak. Both have circular marks, or urnas, on their foreheads and are emblazoned with lustrous, golden complexions to signify their transcendental states. Sumptuously adorning their powerful frames are robes of vermillion and saffron accentuated by floral motifs imitating gold-embroidered stitching. The assembly in its entirety comprises a lineage of deities and lamas demarcated into three rows at the painting's upper half, the sixteen dancing goddesses at the bottom half, and ten figures residing in rocky dwellings behind the central figures' double archway. Some of these include delightfully chubby renderings of Chakrasamvara and Vajrapani, as well as a Mahasiddha whose matching iconography appears on a 12th century mural in the Par caves of Guge, West Tibet (HAR 55334). As for the central figures, despite a lack of inscriptions that would otherwise identify them by name, the appearance of the figure on the right suggests that this thangka records a lineage transmission between an early hierarch and the founder of the Kagyu order, Marpa Chokyi Lodro (1012-96). Supporting this attribution is an inscribed 13th century painting of Marpa as a young, handsome noble, instead of his usual portrayal as a gruff elder with thinning hair, from the Pritzker Collection, published in Pal, Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure, 2003, p. 195, no. 127. In its iconography, palette, and style, this painting is consistent with other early Tibetan paintings that were created during the 11th to 14th centuries. Parallels include a 13th c. thangka of Chakrasamavara with similar dancing goddesses, also from the Pritzker Collection, published in Kossak & Singer, Sacred Visions, 1998, p. 129, no. 32. Also noteworthy are two early paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one depicting Atisha and the other possibly as Dromton, with sturdy physiques and golden skin (1993.479 & 1991.152). Lastly, there is a single portrait of a Kagyu lama from a private collection, whose facial type is nearly identical with both lamas in the present work (HAR 22395).

Published
Amy Heller, Thangka of Two Tibetan Teachers of the Kagyu Lineage, Nyon, 2008.

Provenance
Carlo Cristi, New York, 2006