TIBET - Lot 223

TIBET Lacquered wooden mask depicting the face of an atsara, a monk who spread the Gospel in India, with a broad, hooked nose and protruding, pierced ears; lacquered green and red; with openwork comma-shaped eyes; the mouth stretched into a smile revealing yellowed teeth. (small chips in the lacquer, missing areas, and cracks). H. 27 cm. Export wax seal. Bears inventory number 115/88/10. Base. Provenance: - Sylvie Sauvenière Collection Exhibitions: - Exhibited at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, as part of the exhibition *Les Maîtres du Désordre*, April–July 2012 - Exhibited at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Bonn as part of the exhibition *Lob der Torheit*, August–December 2012 - Exhibited as part of the exhibition “Masks of the Himalayas,” Bernard and Caroline de Watteville Foundation, Martigny (Switzerland), May 2009–December 2010

Utropspris:SEK 67,206.97

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