



Lot 26
Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy(Russian, 1903-1970)Ngawang Sungrab Thutob (1874-1953), 3rd Taktra Rinpoche, Regent of Tibet (1941-1950)
4 June 2025, 16:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£1,000 - £1,500
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Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy (Russian, 1903-1970)
Ngawang Sungrab Thutob (1874-1953), 3rd Taktra Rinpoche, Regent of Tibet (1941-1950)
bears Tibetan inscription and seal of Taktra Rinpoche, signed 'Edna Lorenz' (on mount lower right), bears Edna Lorenz stamp (verso)
gelatin silver print mounted on card
36 x 28.3cm (14 3/16 x 11 1/8in).
bears Tibetan inscription and seal of Taktra Rinpoche, signed 'Edna Lorenz' (on mount lower right), bears Edna Lorenz stamp (verso)
gelatin silver print mounted on card
36 x 28.3cm (14 3/16 x 11 1/8in).
Footnotes
This image was taken in Lhasa in January 1943 by Ilya Tolstoy.
The photographic print would then have been made later at the Edna Lorenz Studio in Calcutta which was run by the British photographer John Lawrence Winterton.
This work originally accompanied the 1947 Letter (lot 24) from Takdra Rinpoche to Sir Basil Gould.