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Ambadas

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year

1972

size

15.5 x 11.5 in. / 39.4 x 29.2 cm.

medium

Water-soluble pencil colour on paper

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.

published references

Singh, Kishore, ed., Memory & Identity: Indian Artists Abroad (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 409

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