Tibetan Refugee Painting 1950, Kalimpong, India, Important Early Painting, Tibet for Sale

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Tibetan Refugee Painting 1950, Kalimpong, India, Important Early Painting, Tibet:
$3500.00

Tibetan Refugee Painting 1950, Kalimpong, India, Important Early Painting, Tibet Product Description

1950 Tibetan RefugeePainting

An extraordinary rarepainting/applique of Tibetan life during the time of their exodus from Tibet.This painting is an early example as it is dated on the verso of c.1950 andwould have been painted by an artist in the first wave of refugees to enterIndia. It is mixed media with use of Tibetan fabric applique, embroidery, and paintingon stretched and lined burlap cloth.

Framed size is 41 x 29inches.

Written on verso:

Tibetan refugees,Buddhist art

From Kalimpong, India

c. 1950

Dr. Clare Harris ofUniversity of Oxford:

?Perhaps the mostsignificant thing about this piece is where it was made and when. You have adate of around 1950 which means it must have been made by one of the first waveof Tibetan refugees to enter India. Also if it is from Kalimpong, then I knowthat there was still a Tibetan Refugee Arts and Crafts centre there in the1980s and people told me that it had been established for some time. Unfortunately,I do not have any further details about it to hand, though I think there was a"master painter" based there...Re. the style: This kind of folksy style painting/applique has certainly beenmade in several Tibetan refugee communities in India and Nepal over the lastfew decades mainly as a fund raising exercise and for sale to foreigners.(Yours appears to be a particularly early example of this genre). The style andsubject matter are often derived from the kinds of painting traditionally producedin Tibet for domestic wall paintings and furniture (rather than thangkapainting
style/content). I would also add that the tone of your piece is (unsurprisingly)one of nostalgia for the familiar features of life back in Tibet - e.g.monastic practice and churning butter tea?.

Dr. Clare Harris

Reader in Visual Anthropology

Pitt Rivers Museum and School of Anthropology

Fellow of Magdalen College
University of Oxford
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