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Sayed Haider Raza (Indian, 1922–2016)
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Sayed Haider Raza (Indian, 1922–2016)
See original version (French)
Estimate €10,000 - €15,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Sayed Haider Raza (Indian, 1922–2016)
Untitled, 1987
Acrylic.
Signed and dated.
Signed on the reverse.
Height 24, width 19 cm.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, Tours.
From the early 1950s, Sayed Haider Raza explored the links between France and India, his country of origin. Upon his arrival in Paris, he moved away from expressive figurative art to embrace abstract painting, in which form is discernible only through the title. The great intensity of his artistic vocabulary, combined with his profound sensitivity, brings his approach closer to that of Mark Rothko (Laurent Le Bon, in *Sayed Haider Raza*, Mapin Publishing, 2023, p. 10). His spiritual abstraction is reinforced by his gradual return to his native culture, which he fully embraced at the turn of the 1980s, the period in which this painting was created. The reds, ochres, greens and blues are in keeping with the colour palette of Rajput miniatures, whilst exploring natural elements. Black is a direct reference to Indian identity, as the ‘mother colour’.
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