Philippe Le Miere 'Seated Buddha from Gandhara' sculpture Paper Size: 56 x 80

Paper Size: 56 x 80 cm (height x width)

Alices Foot is an etching from Charles Blackmans beloved Mother Goose series of 1977

With the angelic Europa as protagonist

this major oil painting by the sought after Le Miere is a miracle

Philippe Le Miere 'Seated Buddha from Gandhara' sculpture Paper Size: 56 x 80According to historians, the earliest phase of Buddhist art only featured indirect or aniconic representations of Buddha. Rather than depictions of Buddha as a man, he appeared symbolically as an empty throne, Bodhi tree, riderless horse with a parasol floating above an empty space, footprints or the dharma wheel. By the 2nd or 3rd century AD however, anthropomorphic representations of Buddha had emerged, with an early sculptural example existing in