Unknown
(Tibet)
- Title
- Mahasiddha
- Place of origin
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Central Tibet →
Tibet
Eastern Tibet → Tibet
- Year
- 19th century
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- ink on primed cotton
- Dimensions
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19.5 x 21.0cm image/sheet (ireg.)
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- D G Wilson Bequest Fund 1999
- Accession number
- 132.1999.a-b
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This cloth from an artist's sketchbook depicts the Mahasiddha or 'great mystics'. On this side is Maitrichen, in standing yogic posture, and on the other side is Draken seated in a Chinese-style landscape. The sure and confident linework suggests the hand of an accomplished draftsperson although traces of underdrawing and the artist's study of detail can be seen. While it has been suggested that these sketches formed part of an artist's pattern book, this set also has the quality of a practice pad or study drawings, especially in the rendering of the deer accompanying the dynamic figure of Maitrichen.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.66.
- Bibliography (2)
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Dawn Hall (United States of America) (Editor), Tibet: Tradition and Change, Albuquerque, 1998, 30 (colour illus.), 31. This reference is not for our work of art, rather another of similiar style and subject matter.
The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 66 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (1)
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Miniature Masterpieces of Asian Art, Parkham Place Gallery, 25 May 1999–25 Jul 1999.
