Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art

Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SOMERSET

SAYED HAIDER RAZA | UNTITLED (MARKET SCENE)

Auction Closed

September 29, 03:32 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SOMERSET

SAYED HAIDER RAZA

1922 - 2016

UNTITLED (MARKET SCENE)


Watercolour on paper

Signed 'S. H. Raza' lower right

24.6 x 34.9 cm. (9 ¾ x 13 ¾ in.)

Painted circa 1940s

Acquired in India by a private British collector. Her husband worked as a doctor in the British Army until the late 1920s when he passed away. She kept up her interest and contacts with India even after returning to England.

Thence by descent

This work will be included in SH RAZA, Catalogue Raisonné, 1939 – 1957 (Early Works) by Anne Macklin on behalf of The Raza Foundation, New Delhi. (Image ref SR3638)