Untitled

Rajendra Dhawan continues to remain an enigma for India’s art world. Trained in New Delhi—where he was a member of The Unknown group of artists—and Belgrade (then Yugoslavia), he settled in Paris and remained there for the rest of his life, to paint abstract landscapes like a tapestry of emotions. Even when using strong colours such as browns or blacks—as in the case of this Untitled painting—he rendered them softly using a dry brush, almost like a haiku, and with a heightened sense of colour balance.