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
Ambadas
Untitled
1972
Water-soluble pencil colour on paper
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1972
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