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During the 1970s and 80s, Raza drew heavily on his childhood memories of nighttime in the denselyforested village of Kakaiya, where he was born, to create several meditations on the role of darkness inthe gestation of colour and life. "It must be said that of this period, with its gestural abstractions, thedark paintings with their resonances of night and its flickering lights are compelling compositions…Theyevoke powerful emotions even as their... During the 1970s and 80s, Raza drew heavily on his childhood memories of nighttime in the denselyforested village of Kakaiya, where he was born, to create several meditations on the role of darkness inthe gestation of colour and life. "It must be said that of this period, with its gestural abstractions, thedark paintings with their resonances of night and its flickering lights are compelling compositions…Theyevoke powerful emotions even as their colour juxtapositions create a throbbing movement on thesurface" (Yashodhara Dalmia, The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives, Oxford UniversityPress, New Delhi, 2001, p. 156). In the present lot, the artist skillfully uses loose, gestural brushwork,rather than direct representation, to juxtapose light and dark, and express emotion in this piece. Indoing so, Raza charges the canvas with an imperceptible force, giving it a sense of immediacy andluminescence.

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