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A THANGKA OF GARWA NAGPO, ATTRIBUTED TO THE TENTH KARMAPA, CHOYING DORJEDISTEMPER AND GOLD ON SILK

Lot 2023
03.11.2025 00:00UTC +08:00
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HKD 7 620 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationHong Kong, Hong Kong
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Lot 2023 | A THANGKA OF GARWA NAGPO, ATTRIBUTED TO THE TENTH KARMAPA, CHOYING DORJEDISTEMPER AND GOLD ON SILK
Estimate value
HKD 6 500 000 – 9 500 000
A THANGKA OF GARWA NAGPO, ATTRIBUTED TO THE TENTH KARMAPA, CHOYING DORJE
DISTEMPER AND GOLD ON SILK
TIBET OR LITHUNG, CIRCA 1655
Image: 18 7/8 x 12 in. (48 x 30.5 cm.)
With silk border: 37 x 15 in. (94 x 38 cm.)




Provenance

Private American Collection, before 2004
Distinguished European Collection



Literature

Heather Stoddard, 'The nine brothers of the White High. On `remembering' of history and the creation of gods'. In Karmay, Samten and Sagant, Philippe (eds.), Les habitants du toit du monde. Études recueillies en hommage à Alexander W. Macdonald, 1997, p. 99, fig. 4.
Irmgard Mengele, The Life and Art of the Tenth Karma-pa Chos-dbyings-rdo-rje (1604-1674), 2005, p. 307, fig. 1.
Karl Debreczeny, The Black Hat Eccentric: Artistic Visions of the Tenth Karmapa, Rubin Museum of Art, 2012, pp. 14, 15, 21, 182, figs. 03 and 6.7.
Heather Stoddard, 'A Brief Note on a Tangka Painted by Chöying Dorjé, Tenth Black Hat Karmapa of Tibet, in 1655: The "Oath-bound Great Being" (Dam can Skyes bu chen po)', pp. 185-190 in Debreczeny and Tuttle, The Tenth Karma & Tibet's Turbulent Seventeenth Century, Serinda, 2016, (cover image)
Karl Debreczeny, 'Recrafting Remote Antiquity: Art of the Tenth Karmapa', Arts of Asia, November-December 2020, p. 83, no. 12.
Ulrich von Schroeder, The Tenth Karmapa Tibet's Greatest Artist, Hong Kong, 2025, p. 221, no. P11.
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