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"What distinguished Raza`s work from that of most other landscape painters was its non-representational quality, with the color tonalities creating an innate rhythm. As his vision scanned the city, it began to draw upon changing lights, atmospheric effects on buildings, and people… The city was captured in different seasons, and then different periods of the day, the boundaries dissolving into mood and movement on the canvas." (Yashodhara... "What distinguished Raza`s work from that of most other landscape painters was its non-representational quality, with the color tonalities creating an innate rhythm. As his vision scanned the city, it began to draw upon changing lights, atmospheric effects on buildings, and people… The city was captured in different seasons, and then different periods of the day, the boundaries dissolving into mood and movement on the canvas." (Yashodhara Dalmia, - `The making of Modern Indian Art`, 2001)

This work titled `Rivage` meaning shore in French, displays a section of a shoreline, as if the horizontal expansion of a shore is turned sideways, making it vertical, exercising the privilege of an artist, to create. The colors in the painting are light and the strokes which sketch an orange boat appear spontaneous, working a sense of the season and reflective daylight.

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