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Asia
For All Paintings Shown: Medium is Oil unless otherwise designated Gouache
or Crayon. Size: width " x height "
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Dolma in Traditional
Ladakh Costume, Leh, Ladakh, 24
x 30 - $6,000
There is little or no privacy in the small house where Dolma
and her husband, Gupta, extend their hospitality to me. Good-natured
wrangling goes on as if I weren't there. |
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Dolma's Eldert
Sister in Matriarchal Dress, Leh,
Ladakh, 16 x 20 - $5,000 |
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Archery Contest.
the Royal Archers versus Government Police, Bhutan, 24 x 30 - $5,000 |
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The Market
at Kalimpong, Darjeeling, India,
24 x 30 - $4,500 |
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Scene of Kashmir
at Srinigar, Himilayan Background,
36 x 36 - $4,500 |
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Sizig-Dar
Buying a Copper Bowl, Srinigar,
Kashmir, 24 x 48 - $7,500
Each little shop, no bigger than a large packing case, faces
out in the narrow winding alleys of old Srinagar. Siziq-dar,
a farmer, is buying a new copper bowl. He is dressed in traditional
Moslem country garb. |
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The Talented
Woodcarver, Srinigar, Kashmir
14 x 18 - $3,500 |
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Ladakh Young
Women-Rest Stop and News Exchange,
24 x 30 - $5,000 |
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Bhutanese Elder with Prayer
Wheel, Paro Dzong,Bhutan (24"
x 30" , oil, 1982)
Prayer is with the Bhutanese no matter where they are or what
they are doing. Pema Dorji returns to his home some distance
from the fields, urgently praying that all the labor shall bring
forth a good harvest. His prayer wheel is an old one made by
hand of beaten silver. Written prayers are attached to the inside
cylinder. |
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Gna Ginz Dance, Thimphu, Bhutan (32" x 40", oil, 1984)
The ballet is performed to keep evil spirits at bay. The dancers
whirl in place, then leap high in the air, their hands performing
the age-old ceremonial routine of Buddhist ritual dance: good
spirits drive out the bad.
The performers maintain the body rhythm of the dance while with
a hooked stick, they beat a slight contrapuntal cadence on rom,
flattened drums mounted on ornate handles. Further background
rhythm is orchestrated by nga-bom, long trumpets; drib,
small bells; and sil nyen, large cymbals. |
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Area of Kathmandu, Nepal (30" x 40", oil, 1978)
Thundrup's wife and two sisters. These girls consider themselves
Sherpas, distinct from Tibetans. There are small differences
in their attire from the Tibetan, but the similarities are strong,
for there has been a constant flow of trade caravans between
Nepal and Tibet for centuries. |
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