Head B

By the time Madhvi Parekh made the head studies such as this one, it had been a little over a decade since she had begun painting, and her style had matured to seamlessly blend all the influences in her art that she had imbibed. Head B shows quite a few of those defining influences—the dots and dashes in the background are an ode to her first inspiration for art, Paul Klee, while the ‘the head’ and the secondary figures behind are in ‘primitivist’ style that she had begun processing from early 1970s. She would go on to display these studies in a joint show with husband Manu Parekh, titled Heads, in 1977.