Untitled

This Untitled work by S. H. Raza comes from a turning point in his legendary career, which would go on to mark a significant departure from his practice until then. This was the year when he travelled to the U.S. to teach at the University of Berkeley in California, and was exposed to the full potency of the gestural paint methods of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, bringing a metamorphosis in his own work, where significant form of encaustic landscapes started getting replaced by gestural abstraction, as evident in this work. The brilliant, fiery colours owe their origin to the artist’s inspiration from Basholi miniatures and the desert landscape of Rajasthan.