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Parinirvana. Buddha and the Five Disciples
Lost Art-ID
616722
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Chinese (Sung or Tang Dynasty?))
Title
Parinirvana. Buddha and the Five Disciples
Dating
801/1000
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Wood / painted
Measures
Height: approx. 60 - 70 cm each
Description
The composition assembled from six painted wooden statuettes.
Provenance
Baron Bertalan Hatvany, Budapest; Lost during WWII; whereabouts unknown
It is unknown whether the loss during the Nazi persecution was caused by the German army, by the Soviet army, or by others.
Literature / Source
Keleti Művészeti Kiállítás [Oriental Art Exhibition], Magyar Gyűjtők és Művészetkedvelők Egyesülete [Association of Hungarian Collectors and Art Patrons] Iparművészeti Múzeum [Museum of Applied Arts] Budapest, 1929, No. 607, Plate XXVI; Hatvany Bertalanné levele a Szépművészeti Múzeum Igazgatóságának,, Hatvany Józsefné, Hatvany Endre, Hatvany Bertalan, Hatvany Lilly, és Hatvany Antónia nyilasok és németek által elhurcolt javaikról [Letter of Mrs. Bertalan Hatvany to the Directorate of the Museum of Fine Arts about the assets taken by the Nyilas and Nazis of Mrs. József Hatvany, Endre Hatvany, Bertalan Hatvany, Lilly Hatvany, Antónia Hatvany] March 21, 1947, Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary], 369/1947, No. 3 (Sung or Ming Dynasty, polychrom, 3 - 4th century, six pieces, „guilt Buddha lying"); Bertalan Hatvany levele az elveszett főbb műtárgyainak listájával a Veszélyeztetett Magángyűjtemények Miniszteri Bizottságának [Letter of Bertalan Hatvany with a list of the more important lost works of art to the Ministerial Commission of Endangered Art Collections] July 9, 1947. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XIX-J-13-332-1947, Nos. 19-24.; List of Art Treasures Removed by Germans from Hungary and not been returned by March, 1948. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XXIX-L-2-r 51, No. 24 - 29 (13 - 15th century, red, white, green, the Buddha - figure gilded); Mravik, László, The "Sacco Di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949: Works of Art Missing from Hungary as a Result of the Second World War : Looted, Smuggled, Captured, Lost and Destroyed Art Works, Books and Archival Documents : Preliminary and Provisional Catalog, 1998, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, p. 213, No. 15556-15563.; Fajcsák, Györgyi, Bertalan Hatvany, an Unknown Connoisseur of Oriental Art In: Ars Decorativa 23, Budapest, 2004, 55-71.
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