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1874, St Petersburg - 7, Kullu (India)

Lahaul Rocks (Signs ofGesar)

1935

  • tempera on canvas. 86 x 123
  • Ж-7106

  • Received in 1960 from the artist’s son George de Roerich (Moscow) by bequest from the artist


Images of this sort are typical of Bronze Age rock paintings discovered in India, Kirgizia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Western Tibet (Lahaul). The images depict the traditional scene of a round dance in honour of the god Gesar. Roerich returned several times to this character both in his paintings and his writings (The Sword of Gesar Khan). Gesar Khan was a religious hero in a Mongolian-Tibetan epic who cleansed the earth of monsters.


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