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~~Exhibition will showcase the 92-year-old artist’s renditions of nature, culture and architecture in France Dubai, UAE - March 2013: Sovereign has announced an exhibition featuring rare early paintings by the legendary artist, Syed Haider Raza (SH Raza). Paysage will open on 20 March and run until 24 April, at the art gallery located in Dubai’s Jumeirah Lakes Towers. Sovereign’s exhibition will pay ode to one of the least known facts about one of the world’s most celebrated Modern Indian artists - that he began his career as a landscape painter. It is more widely known that the artist lived in France for six decades, and some of the paintings in the show feature landmarks in Brittany, Poitiers and Corsica. Curator and gallery-owner, Dadiba Pundole, who has personally known SH Raza for more than 40 years, says the artist’s early landscapes are very difficult to come by - and thereby more coveted - than the mindscapes he is now famous for. “When Raza moved to France in 1950, he was more than enamoured with the culture and countryside. This was expressed first in his fluent landscapes and townscapes, and later, more abstract versions of the villages, mountains, iconography, and ethnography of France. “Paysage will showcase SH Raza’s oft-forgotten but greatly prized thematic oeuvres of nature, culture and architecture,” Pundole said. The exhibition will showcase close to 20 paintings, many of which will also be on sale.
SH Raza (born in February 1922) is one of India’s most globally feted artists, and widely hailed for his rich use of colour, and icons from Indian philosophy and cosmology. Among many other achievements, he was awarded the Silver and Gold Medals by the Bombay Art Society in 1946 and 1948 respectively, became the first non-French artist to be awarded the Prix de la critique in 1956, and was conferred the title of Padma Vibushan by the Government of India in 2013. When his seminal work Saurashtra sold at a 2010 Christie’s auction for US$ 3.49 million, it commanded the highest price ever paid for a single piece of Indian art, and Raza became India's most expensive modern artist. After living in France for six decades, Raza moved to New Delhi in 2011, and the 92-year-old-artist now spends his days painting and reading. Sovereign art gallery is located at The Palladium in Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai and is open from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm, and 4.30 pm to 7.30 pm - every day except Friday. Viewings can be arranged by appointment on Tel: 04 4322846, or by Email: info@sovereignfze.com
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