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PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN, NEW DELHI
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S H RAZA
(1922 ‒ 2016)
Untitled
Signed and dated 'RAZA 1986' (on the reverse)
1986
Acrylic on paper pasted on mountboard
25.5 x 19.5 in (64.7 x 49.7 cm)
$ 23,440 ‒ 28,125
Rs 15,00,000 ‒ 18,00,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired directly from the artist
Christie's, New York, 23 March 2011, lot 616
The present lot was painted when Raza lived in the village
of Gorbio in the south of France, and was moving from
his earlier phase of Cubist abstraction towards a freer form
of expression. “His restless mind was seeking ‘a kind of
liberation from the severity of geometrical construction’...
he continued to explore further possibilities of colour,
making colour rather than any geometric design or
division, the pivotal element around which his paintings
moved. Also, colours were not being used as merely
formal elements: they were emotionally charged. Their
movements or consonances on the canvases seemed
more and more to be provoked by emotions, reflecting or
embodying emotive content.” (Ashok Vajpeyi ed.,
A Life
in Art: S H Raza
, New Delhi: Art Alive Gallery, 2007, p. 78)
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S H RAZA
(1922 ‒ 2016)
Heart
Signed and dated 'Raza 72' (lower centre); signed and
dated 'Raza 1972' and inscribed 'HEART' (on the reverse)
1972
Acrylic on tin
25.25 x 19.25 in (64 x 49 cm)
$ 40,000 ‒ 60,000
Rs 25,60,000 ‒ 38,40,000
PROVENANCE:
Christie's, New York, 30 March 2006, lot 85
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