id: 150723 accession number: 1982.147 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.147 updated: 2023-12-07 17:50:56.352000 Eleven-Headed, Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokiteshvara), c. 1500. Western Tibet. Gum tempera and ink on cotton; overall: 94.6 x 69.2 cm (37 1/4 x 27 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1982.147 title: Eleven-Headed, Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokiteshvara) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1500 creation date earliest: 1495 creation date latest: 1505 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: Western Tibet technique: Gum tempera and ink on cotton department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Tibetan Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 94.6 x 69.2 cm (37 1/4 x 27 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies opening date: 2015-01-13T00:00:00 Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL (organizer) (January 13-April 19, 2015); Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (May 22-October 19, 2015). title: Himalayan art rotation opening date: 2021-09-01T04:00:00 Himalayan art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 1, 2021-February 6, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Silk Route and the Diamond Path: Esoteric Buddhist Art on the Trans-Himalayan Trade Routes. Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery of UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (November 7, 1982-January 2, 1983); Asia Society Gallery, New York, NY (February 6-April 3, 1983); National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC (April 28-June 30,1983). * Selections from the Tibetan Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 25, 1993). * Main Himalayan Rotation (Gallery 239). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 18, 2013-June 30, 2014). --- PROVENANCE (Navin Kumar Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1982 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1982– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Pal, Pratapaditya. "Cosmic Vision and Buddhist Images." Art International vol. XXV/1-2 (January, 1982), pp. 8–39. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 24–25 url: Klimburg-Salter, Deborah E., and Maximilian Klimburg. The Silk Route and the Diamond Path: Esoteric Buddhist Art on the Trans-Himalayan Trade Routes. Los Angeles, CA: Published under the sponsorship of the UCLA Art Council, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 201, pl. 122 url: Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review for 1982." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 1 (1983): 3–55. page number: Mentioned: no. 134, p. 55; Reproduced: no. 134, p. 31 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159799 Pal, Pratapaditya. Tibetan Paintings: A Study of Tibetan Thankas, Eleventh to Nineteenth Centuries. Vaduz: Ravi Kumar, Lilakala, 1984. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 111, pl. 46 url: Kerin, Melissa R. and Rob Linrothe. "Recollecting Kashmir: Cleveland's Eleven-headed, Thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara." Orientations 46, no. 1 (January/February 2015): 68-76. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: figs. 1, 1a, 3, 4, 5; pp. 68, 70, and 72 url: Ahmed, Monisha. "Exhibition review of Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kahsmire and Its Legacies." Mārg 67, no. 1 (September-December 2015): 80–83. page number: Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 80 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.147/1982.147_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.147/1982.147_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.147/1982.147_full.tif