Tantric Deities Hevajra and Nairatmya in Ritual Embrace (Yab-Yum) by an unidentified artist
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Tantric Deities Hevajra and Nairatmya in Ritual Embrace (Yab-Yum)

Unattributed · c. 1600

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Bharany, New Delhi; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka and Chicago, IL, Sep. 26, 1974 [handwritten note by James W. Alsdorf; copy in curatorial object file]; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1990 [on long-term loan at the Art Institute of Chicago, June 26, 1978; promised as a gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 11, 2002]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 31, 2010.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Hong Kong, University Art Gallery, In the Footsteps of the Buddha, Sept. 25- Dec.15, 1998.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection , Aug. 2–Oct. 26, 1997, cat. 196.

Literature

Published references

  • Pratapaditya Pal with contributions by Stephen Little, <em> A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection </em> (The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Thames and Hudson, 1997), 315, cat.196, 150 (ill.).
  • Pratapaditya Pal, "May the Immeasurable Wealth of Your Dance Fill My Consciousness: Dancing Deities of India," <em> Orientations </em> 28, no. 7 (July-August 1997): 36, fig. 15.
  • Rajeshwari Ghose. <em> In the Footsteps of the Buddha: An Iconic Journey from India to China. </em> (Hong Kong: University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 1998) Plate 54.

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