id: 150723
accession number: 1982.147
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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)
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creation date: c. 1500
creation date earliest: 1495
creation date latest: 1505
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creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture: Western Tibet
technique: Gum tempera and ink on cotton
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Tibetan Art
type: Painting
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measurements: Overall: 94.6 x 69.2 cm (37 1/4 x 27 1/4 in.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': '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).', 'opening_date': '1983-02-06T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Selections from the Tibetan Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 25, 1993).', 'opening_date': '1993-07-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Main Himalayan Rotation (Gallery 239). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 18, 2013-June 30, 2014).', 'opening_date': '2013-11-18T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Navin Kumar Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1982
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1982–
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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