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Published : Raza - A Retrospective by Saffronart, In association with Berkely Square Gallery, New York, 2007, pg. 27.
Exhibited : Raza - A Retrospective by Saffronart, In association with Berkely Square Gallery, New York, 2007.
Provenance : From a private collection based in Austria, property was
acquired by the present owner from Saffronart.
Height of the figure - 6ft
Sayed Haider Raza was born in 1922 in Madhya Pradesh and studied painting at the Nagpur School of Art and the Sir J.J.School of Art. A founder member of the Progressive Artists' Group Raza participated actively in the Group's activities, stimulated may discussions in the early struggle to develop a modernist language and presented several exhibitions of his paintings in India before leaving for France on a French Government scholarship in 1950. In Paris he studied painting at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1950 to 1953. Awarded the Prix de la Critique in Paris in 1956, Raza has held numerous exhibitions both in India and abroad. He has participated in the Venice, Sao Paulo and Menton Biennales. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1981. A strong colourist Raza's painting resonate the passionate hot colours of India with all their symbolic, emotive value. The artist passed away in the year 2016.
