Untitled

Made in the year 1972, when Ambadas left India for Norway, this Untitled work is almost a metaphor for the major shift that would come in the artist’s life with the geographical move across continents. While he continued to evolve as an abstractionist, the shift had a lasting impact on his colour palette, the seeds of which are in evidence in this work—the minimal use of turmeric yellow and pink on a vast beige sea with ripples of black seems like a parable for the receding colours of the tropics making way for the temperate shades.