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TIBET, 17TH-18TH CENTURY 35 x 24 ? in. (88.9 x 62.9 cm.)
Private collection, New York, 1990s, by repute.
The present painting depicts the deity, Maha Vairochana, as he appears according to the Sarvadurgati Parishodhana Tantra. It is possible this painting was once part of a set of three that depicted the full retinue of the Thirty-Seven Deity Mandala of all the Families of Great Vairochana, but arranged schematically instead of in mandala-form. Compare the present painting with a seventeenth-century Tibetan painting of the Sarvavid Maha Vairochana mandala in the Lostand Foundation, published on Himalayan Art Resources (item no. 90402); while the Lostand Foundation example is arranged in a typical mandala fashion, both works demonstrate similar treatments of the deities, landscape, and overall color palette.