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"Colours can reveal innumerable human sentiments that we are capable of and I am trying to make them live on the canvas." - S H RAZA

Raza's gestural abstract expressionism underwent a transformation in the late 1970s and '80s, influenced by his increasingly frequent visits to India. The works of this period retained the fluid brushstrokes of the previous decade, but included more geometrical elements, as seen in the present... "Colours can reveal innumerable human sentiments that we are capable of and I am trying to make them live on the canvas." - S H RAZA

Raza's gestural abstract expressionism underwent a transformation in the late 1970s and '80s, influenced by his increasingly frequent visits to India. The works of this period retained the fluid brushstrokes of the previous decade, but included more geometrical elements, as seen in the present lot. The addition of these parameters to the freer expression of personal experiences and emotions in his earlier works suggested a deeper engagement with the idea of an ordered and structured universe. Raza also began to employ fewer but carefully chosen colours in his work, assembled and reassembled to simulate the passion and warmth of the tropical climate of Central India, where the artist was born and raised. The works from this time foreshadow Raza's next phase of painting, where geometrical structures, primary colours and cosmological symbolism became critical elements of his work.

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