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Sayed Haider Raza Art

Indian, 1922-2016
Born in 1922 in Babaria, Madhya Pradesh, Raza moved to Mumbai where he graduated form the Sir J.J. School of Art in 1943 and went on to be one of the founding members of the Progressive Artists’ Group in 1947. After receiving a French Government Scholarship in 1950 he left for Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Raza was awarded the Prix de la Critique in Paris, in 1956. In 1962 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of California in Berkeley, USA. The Madhya Pradesh State Government invited Raza for a major exhibition of his works in 1978 and also awarded him with the Kalidas Samman in 1996-97. The Government of India awarded him with the Padma Shri in 1981, one of the highest civilian honors, and he was elected as a Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1983. His work bears witness to a syncretic influence blending nature and spirituality, Western culture and Eastern philosophy. The recurring motifs, declined in his work, of the black point and the circle are the incarnations of the Indian spiritual symbols of the bindu (point) and the mandala (circle) at the same time that they can be considered for their plastic quality in their own right. Whether one discerns in his works the poetic and synthetic evocation of a landscape or that of a pure abstract composition with musical virtues, whether one considers them from the angle of the profane or from that of the sacred, the paintings of Raza are in any case an invitation to contemplative and transcendental meditation. Raza has exhibited in several exhibitions as well as biennials and triennials: Venice-1956; Menton-1964, 66, 68, 72, 76; Rabat, Morocco-1963; Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India-1986; Havana, Cuba-1987; Les Arts en France et le Monde, Musee d’art Moderne, Paris-1957; Gallerie Lara Vincy, Paris-1957 – 1969; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, ‘Indian Contemporary Painters’, Renwich, Washington D.C.-1973; ‘India: Myth and Reality-Aspects of Modern Indian Art’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford-1982; ‘Artistes Indiens en France’, Foundation Nationale Des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques,Paris-1985; ‘Coups de Coeur’, Geneva-1987; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea-1988; ‘Retrospective 1952 – 91’, Palais Carnoles, Musee de Menton, Paris-1991; ‘The Search Within’, an Austro-Indian traveling exhibition, Pernegg Monastery, Geras and Bildungshaus St.Virgil, Salzburg, Austria, National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi and Mumbai, India-1998-99; Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, New York – 2001, 02.
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Artist: Sayed Haider Raza
Five Elements - Original handsigned lithograph - 150 copies (INDIA)
By Sayed Haider Raza
Located in Paris, IDF
RAZA Sayed Haider Five Elements, 2008 Original lithograph Hand signed in pencil Numbered / 150 On vellum 36 x 29" (92 x 73 cm) Authenticated with the Editor stamp on the backside E...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Sayed Haider Raza Art

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Morning Raga - Original handsigned lithograph - 150 copies
By Sayed Haider Raza
Located in Paris, IDF
RAZA Sayed Haider Morning Raga Original lithograph Hand signed in pencil Numbered / 150 On vellum 29 x 36" (73 x 92 cm) Authenticated with the editor stamp on the backside Excelle...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Sayed Haider Raza Art

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Duality - Original handsigned lithograph - 150 copies (INDIA)
By Sayed Haider Raza
Located in Paris, IDF
RAZA Sayed Haider Duality, 2008 Original lithograph Hand signed in pencil Numbered / 150 On vellum 43 x 22" (110 x 55 cm) Authenticated with the Editor stamp on the backside Excell...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Sayed Haider Raza Art

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Bindu - Original handsigned lithograph - 150 copies (INDIA)
By Sayed Haider Raza
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RAZA Sayed Haider Bindu, 2008 Original lithograph Hand signed in pencil Numbered / 150 On vellum 43 x 22" (110 x 55 cm) Authenticated with the Editor stamp on the backside Excellen...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Sayed Haider Raza Art

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Tree and Bindu - Original handsigned lithograph - 150 copies
By Sayed Haider Raza
Located in Paris, IDF
RAZA Sayed Haider Tree and Bindu Original lithograph Hand signed in pencil Numbered / 150 On vellum 43 x 22" (110 x 55 cm) Editor stamp on the backside Excellent condition
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Sayed Haider Raza Art

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Tree - Original handsigned lithograph - 150 copies
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RAZA Sayed Haider Tree MEDIUM : Lithograph SIGNATURE : Hand signed SIZE : 43 x 22" (110 x 55 cm) PAPER : Vellum LIMIT : 150 copies INFORMATION : E...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Sayed Haider Raza Art

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Prakriti Bindu - Original handsigned lithograph - 150 copies (INDIA)
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Located in Paris, IDF
RAZA Sayed Haider Prakriti Bindu, 2008 Original lithograph Hand signed in pencil Numbered / 150 On vellum 43 x 22" (110 x 55 cm) Authenticated with the Editor stamp on the backside ...
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Tree, Bindu & Five Elements - Original handsigned lithograph /150 copies #INDIA
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Sayed Haider Raza Original Lithograph Signed and Numbered in pencil Title: Morning Raga Edition: 150 Dimensions: 73 x 92 cm Sayed Haider Raza He is one of the most important contemporary Indian artists. Achievements of S. H. Raza have made him as stable as the pole star. Undoubtedly, he is a star whose light can never be dimmed out. Sayed Haider Raza is one of India's great icons. Founder of the Bombay Progressives, Raza rose like a meteor in the modernity of Indian art and in the contemporaneity of Indian art he stands as a metaphor for timelessness. Sayed Haider Raza was born in Babaria, Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh, to Sayed Mohammed Razi, the Deputy Forest Ranger of the district and Tahira Begum, and it was here that he spent his early years and took to drawing at age 12; before moving to Damoh also in Madhya Pradesh at 13, where he completed his school education from Government High School, Damoh. After his high school, he studied further at the Nagpur School of Art, Nagpur (1939–43), followed by Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay (1943–47), before moving to France in October 1950 to study at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSB-A) in Paris, 1950- 1953 on a Govt. of France scholarship. After his studies, he travelled across Europe, and continued to live and exhibit his work in Paris. He was later awarded the Prix de la critique in Paris in 1956, becoming the first non-French artist to receive the honour. In December 1978, the Madhya Pradesh Government invited him to his native state for a homage and an exhibition of his works in Bhopal. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the President of India in 1981 and was elected fellow of the Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi in 1983. S.H. Raza has been living in Paris and in Gorbio, A.M. France before recently returning to New Delhi, India where he now lives. Art career Early career Syed Haider Raza, had his first solo show in 1946 at Bombay Art Society Salon, and was awarded the Silver Medal of the society. His work evolved from painting expressionistic landscapes to abstract ones. From his fluent water colours of landscapes and townscapes executed in the early 40's he moved towards a more expressive language painting landscapes of the mind. 1947 proved to be a very important year for him, at first his mother died, and this was also the year when he co-founded the revolutionary Bombay Progressive Artists' Group (PAG) (1947–1956) along with K.H. Ara and F.N. Souza (Francis Newton Souza), which set out to break free from the influences of European realism in Indian art and bring Indian inner vision (Antar gyan) into the art, the group had its first show in 1948, the year his father died in Mandla and most of his family of four brothers and a sister migrated to Pakistan, after the partition of India. Once in France, he continued to experiment with currents of Western Modernism moving from Expressionist modes towards greater abstraction and eventually incorporating elements of Tantrism from Indian scriptures. Whereas his fellow contemporaries dealt with more figural subjects, Raza chose to focus on landscapes in the 1940s and 50s, inspired in part by a move to the France. In 1959, he married French artist, Janine Mongillat, and three years later, in 1962, he became a visiting lecturer at the University of California in Berkeley, USA. Raza was initially enamored of the bucolic countryside of rural France. Eglise is part of a series which captures the rolling terrain and quaint village architecture of this region. Showing a tumultuous church engulfed by an inky blue night sky, Raza uses gestural brushstrokes and a heavily impasto-ed application of paint, stylistic devices which hint at his later 1970s abstractions. His Indian canvases...
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