DEUX TANGKAS REPRÉSENTANT DES ARHATS TIBET DE L'EST, STYLE DE PALPUNG, FIN DU XIXE/DÉBUT DU XXE SIÈCLE Distemper on cloth; both with inscriptions om ah hum and double handprints verso. Himalayan Art Resources item no. 4653 Image: 69.5 x 45.5 cm (27 3/8 x 17 7/8 in.), each Footnotes: TWO THANGKAS FROM AN ARHAT SERIES EASTERN TIBET, PALPUNG STYLE, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY 藏東 八蚌風格 十九世紀末/二十世紀初 羅漢唐卡二幀 Provenance: With Claude de Marteau, Brussels, by 1970s Depicted in this pair of thangkas are six Arhats including Chudapantaka, Vanavasin, and Pantaka in one and Bhadra, Vajriputra, and Bakula in the other. Painted in bold tones and depicted on an open landscape, they showcase a compositional style of painting first developed by Situ Panchen at Palpung monastery. Another painting also bearing double handprints and attributed to the same school is in the Rubin Museum of Art, New York (HAR 65624). The present lot originally belonged to a set of ten paintings illustrating Shakyamuni accompanied by attendant figures, the Guardians of the Four Directions, and the Sixteen Arhats, comparing favorably to an earlier example sold at Bonhams, New York, 14 September 2015, lot 28 and HAR 31683. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com