A Tibetan thangka portraying a seated Dalai Lama with disciples in a cloudy mountain landscape, 19th Century.
Colour pigments and gold on cotton cloth. 68 x 46,8 cm. The cloth sawn together from two parts. Inscriptions on the figures on verso.
Wear, loss of pigments, minor defects.
Provenance
The artist Einar Jolin (1890-1976), and with his own annotation on the backboard: 'Tibetan tempera-painting, acquired from Astberg 1941 by Einar Jolin. This wonderful Tibetan painting, is perhaps my most beloved one among my Asian artworks. What imagination and what technical perfection.'
