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Riyas Komu
(1971)

Younus I



Riyas Komu began his series of massive portraits in the late 1990s. “These are the faces of people captured in the attitude of waiting, of foreboding or memorialising: these are the faces of witnesses, who depose before us, silently obliging us to acknowledge the genocides and mass migrations, the families and desolations of our catastrophic epoch” (Ranjit Hoskote, “The Menace of Framing, The Persistence of Hope: Recent Paintings and Sculptures...



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  Lot 37 of 100  

SPRING AUCTION 2010
10-11 MARCH 2010

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Riyas Komu
Younus I

Signed and dated in English (verso)
2008
Oil on canvas
78 x 60 in (198.1 x 152.4 cm)

EXHIBITED:
Link, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2008

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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