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  Strasser, Roland - Biography
   
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Abbot Lama
Oil on Linen, 38 x 27 inches, 96.5 x 68.6 cm

Price Code D
Inventory #14091
This painting was included in an exhibition of Strasser's work in Paris in 1933. The following is an excerpt from a review by Marcel du Bal in Revue du Vrai et du Arts et Lettres:

No. 3 is the portrait of the Abbot of the Lamacloister of Zain Zabi in Outer Mongolia and representative of the Living Buddha, who at the time of painting was a captive of the Soviets. A profound human face of spiritual sensitivity and quite dignity in a meditative attitude so aptly expressed in the symmetry of design and the balance of forms and colours. The subtle movement of his ascetic hands and fingers, the look in his eyes and the faint smile on his lips as "the operations of the spirit within" is a phrase of paramount significance brought at once to ones mind.
The brightly coloured scarves over his shoulder are the customary gifts of devout visitors who may ask for advice and guidance of deep and firm thought assistance. The background is a Tanka parchment painting of the divinities of the Paradise with silk surrounds. On the right side of a lacquer chest stands a ceremonial cup with silvercover used for drinking tea.
The picture originally painted by Strasser for the Lamasery of Zain Zabi (West Outer Mongolia) strikes a unique form of realsim and oriental art. It has a great psychological precision in the drawing of the features and the head, yet also a certain largeness and dignity. When the artist tells us of his return visit to the Monastery "...I found the courtyard and the Gate hushed up in deep silence and emptiness...sparrows twittering and a few mongrel dogs...the door of the Temple nailed tight and a poster in Mongolian and Russian...". One almost feels the reverence of this painting a foreboding....
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