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
- Period Early 20th century
- Landscape
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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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