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“Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.”
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007), 'Poems', p.397, Atlantic Publishers
“Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.”
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007), 'Poems', p.397, Atlantic Publishers
Sayed Haider Raza
The Fall, 1964
Oil on canvas
100 x 81 cm
39 3/8 x 31 7/8 in
39 3/8 x 31 7/8 in
Signed and dated 'RAZA '64' lower right, signed, titled and inscribed 'Raza/ The Fall/ P562'64' on the reverse
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“Raza always painted an imaginary world, traversed by tragic intensities, with his energies concentrated at the points where his coloured planes overlapped. In the thickness of his matter, a whole...
“Raza always painted an imaginary world, traversed by tragic intensities, with his energies concentrated at the points where his coloured planes overlapped. In the thickness of his matter, a whole network of coloured veins circulated; flashing reds and yellows pierced deep blacks. Effects of tension and nervous agitation upset shadowy zones…
“His painting has become fluid, light, calm. His fragmented stroke is extending itself gradually across the surface and is now being organised along unexpected planes…
“The work is finding, occasionally at the heart of strange concretions, a centre of subtle gravity. There is no doubt that there is a solidity, a certainty in these forms, a quasi-mineral aspect, a presence which faces up victoriously to the wealth of imagination.”
Jacques Lassaigne
“His painting has become fluid, light, calm. His fragmented stroke is extending itself gradually across the surface and is now being organised along unexpected planes…
“The work is finding, occasionally at the heart of strange concretions, a centre of subtle gravity. There is no doubt that there is a solidity, a certainty in these forms, a quasi-mineral aspect, a presence which faces up victoriously to the wealth of imagination.”
Jacques Lassaigne
Provenance
Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris;Collection L. Paris;
Grosvenor Gallery, London
Exhibitions
South Asian Modern Art 2022, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 10 June – 1 July 2022, no. 15
Literature
Publications
Jacques Lassaigne, Raza, Cimaise Art et Architecture Actuals, Paris, No. 79, Jan - Feb - Mar 1967, unpaginated (illustrated in black and white)
Alain Bonfand, RAZA, Paris, 2008, p. 79 (illustrated in colour), incorrectly titled and dated
Anne Macklin (ed.), S H Raza, Catalogue Raisonne, Volume I (1958 - 1971), Vadehra Art Gallery & The Raza Foundation, New Delhi, 2016, p. 119 (reproduced in black and white)
