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S H Raza
(1922 - 2016)

La Terre



Between time spent as a member of the Progressive Artists’ Group in Bombay in the late 1940s to his subsequent move to France, Raza’s artistic career centred on the pursuit of ‘significant form’ - a term coined by the renowned British critic Clive Bell to describe that perfect combination of line, colour and shape which leads, via emotion, to a “world of aesthetic ecstasy” (Clive Bell, “Art and Significant Form”, Art, 1913).

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  Lot 22 of 40  

SPRING LIVE AUCTION: SOUTH ASIAN MODERN ART
16 MARCH 2023

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Rs 2,04,00,000
$248,780

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ARTWORK DETAILS

S H Raza
La Terre

Signed and dated 'RAZA '81' (lower centre); signed, dated and inscribed 'RAZA/ 1981/ "La terre"' (on the reverse)
1981
Acrylic on canvas
31.5 x 31.5 in (80 x 80 cm)

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist in Paris, circa 1990s
Private Collection, Mumbai

This work will be included in a revised edition of S H Raza, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II, (1972 - 1989) by Anne Macklin on behalf of The Raza Foundation, New Delhi

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract


 








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