Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art

This season’s sale features a wide selection of works from across India, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. The sale is led by a an impressively large and important painting of Vajrabhairava in consort with Vajra Vetali, dated to 1740 in Tibet. The sale also includes a group fine Himalayan gilt bronzes, foremost among them a rare Zanabazar style gilt-bronze figure of Green Tara from the esteemed Nyingjei Lam Collection. Other important Himalayan sculptures include a large and rare Western Tibetan silver-inlaid figure of Amitabha, a large 16^th century Tibetan gilt-bronze figure of Amitabha and a 15^th century Nepalese gilt-bronze figure of Chakrasamvara. The vast selection of Himalayan paintings highlights an important Eastern Tibetan painting of Ngor Abbots. The sale also includes a group of well-provenanced Gandharan works of art from a New York estate. The sale concludes with an impressive selection of Indian paintings, including a folio from the ‘large’ Guler-Basohli Bhagavata Purana series, several works from the workshop of the Kangra artist Purkhu, a portrait of Kashmir darners attributable to Bishan Singh, and an assortment of Company School and Early Bengal School works.

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