Nari

In the year 1979, S. H. Raza—one of India’s most important abstractionists and a blue-chip signature in the art market—first made a work on the concept of Bindu, a dot or seed from which all life originates. It was born out of his quest to rediscover his Indian roots, after having lived in Paris for almost three decades by then. The bindu lies at the centre of this work as well, which Raza uses to construct a female form through geometrical abstraction, and hence the title, Nari (woman). At the bottom, he writes the Sanskrit saying: Yatra nariyastu pujyatey, tatra ramyante devata (Gods rejoice where women are worshipped).