ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
 |
| Seated Buddha, Korea, Goryeo dynasty, 10th century, gift of the 2013 Collectors Committee |
CALIFORNIA--Since 1986, the
Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art’s annual Collectors Committee Gala has resulted in numerous important acquisitions in all areas of the museum’s collection. This weekend the Collectors Committee added nine more. For the event, Collectors Committee members create a pool for acquisitions funds and then use those funds to vote for artworks presented by LACMA curators earlier in the day. In the final tally, LACMA raised more than $3.2 million—a record for the event—toward seven artworks. Two religious art aquisitions were included: a Shinto Mountain Avatar, and a rare Korean cast iron Buddha sculpture (above) from the tenth century Goryeo dynasty which depicts the historical Buddha Shakyamuni’s Enlightenment at Bodha Gaya in India; this acquisition makes this the largest example of Goryeo Buddhist sculpture outside of Asia.
Comments