Sayed Haider Raza

Untitled (La Ville)

Auction Closed

March 20, 05:04 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a Private Collection, New York

Sayed Haider Raza

1922 - 2016

Untitled (La Ville)

Gouache on paper

Signed and dated ‘S. H. RAZA. 1951.’ lower right

27 ¼ x 22 in. (69.2 x 55.9 cm.)

Painted in 1951

Acquired from noted art dealer, Charles Zalber, Paris, circa 1960s

Charles Zalber was the owner of Galerie Lucie Weill & Seligmann, Paris, a renowned gallery located adjacent to the École Nacionale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Founded in 1930, the gallery worked with upcoming and established artists, both French and international, the likes of Pablo Picasso, Christian Bérard, Jean Cocteau, Gino Severini, and Kees van Dongen.

Les Jardin Des Arts, No. 13, Paris, November 1955, illustration p. 34 (titled La ville, 1951)

This work will be included in SH RAZA, Catalogue Raisonné, Early Works (1940 - 1957) by Anne Macklin on behalf of The Raza Foundation, New Delhi (Image ref SR2796).