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This striking painting conveys the artist’s wistful feelings about the loss of her parents, while evoking the Biblical story of Adam and Eve and the loss of Paradise. Here two winged angels meet within a glowing oval sun, surrounded by stylized trees, gesturing the transition from childhood happiness and innocence to another state of being.
Framed Acrylic Painting Collage on Paper
Exhibited in several galleries, this collage by Lark Pilinsky features a single strand of textured string, showing the inseparable union of two humans in a state of blissful love.
Rare magnificent carving of Joseph with the Christ child is a blend of Portuguese and European with indigenous South Indian traditions. Joseph is light-skinned, blue-eyed, with western features without a halos, modest and very human with a straightforward spiritual presence.
This rare Ming/Qing wood Buddha as an infant is probably more striking than the original piece. A piece for lovers of wood, its erosion shows the random miracle of chance. Highlighted on a frosted acrylic base.
This painting presents a lively cosmic vision with a radiant eye at its center, from which divine energies seem to descend and bless a sacred human encounter. The work exudes a sense of mystery and reverence, suggesting communion between the celestial and the earthly.
In Sagittarius, the magic of the Winter Solstice is captured in the contrast between darkness and light, with deep-hued colors that capture the natural beauty and chill of the winter season.
Acrylic on Canvas
The balance, harmony and muted colors of this large ethereal painting were designed to bestow calm and inner peace upon the artist as well as the viewer.
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
This radiant painting reflects Lark’s belief that the sumptuous beauty and healing power of the seas can bring internal and external peace as well as harmony to the world.
Exquisite carved Taoist Queen Mother of the West Jade Maiden attendant who carries a peach of immortality grown in the Queen’s Garden. These fruits blossom every 3,000 years and are served at her famous banquet in the Western Paradise.
This Guanyin image was probably one of a pair of images along with the Taoist Queen Mother of the West (16206A-WACK) placed together on a community, local temple or home altar. Created by the same local artisan, they are provincial rather than imperial style having a humble, unadorned and simple rendering, seated on backless thrones, hands covered by a ritual cloth, uncharacteristic of Guanyin but common for Taoist goddesses. Both wear layered robes and a high pointed crown – the Queen Mother’s centered by a phoenix and Guanyin’s by a flower surrounded by symbolic aureole of radiating light. Both have soft blissful smiles with eyes cast slightly downwards to engage their devotees. Initially covered in bright polychrome colors, there are traces of surviving red, yellow, green, brown and black.
Fine open-lattice fret work cupboard door with auspicious symbols of blessings associated with a fulfilling life: longevity, wealth/ prosperity, health/peace of mind and love of virtue/high moral standards as well as a happy marriage. .
One of the most popular Mahayana Pure Land Buddhism depictions of Guanyin, especially during the Ming and Qing dynasties, is Nanhai Guanyin shown here symbolically on a stylized rocky outcrop at her cave at Putuo in meditation (dhyana), legs in padmasana under her robes, flanked by twisted columns one topped by a vial placed on…
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