Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
Property from an Important Private Collection
Sayed Haider Raza
Terra Amata
Auction Closed
September 26, 03:20 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 4,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Sayed Haider Raza
1922 - 2016
Terra Amata
Acrylic on canvas
Signed and dated ‘RAZA ‘84’ lower right and further signed, dated, titled and inscribed ‘RAZA / 1984 / 175 X 150 cms / “TERRA AMATA” / Acrylique sur toile’ on reverse
Bearing The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University exhibition label on reverse
174.6 x 150.2 cm. (68 ¾ x 59 ⅛ in.)
Painted in 1984
Acquired directly from the artist by Chester and Davida Herwitz
Sotheby's New York, Contemporary Indian Paintings: The Chester and Davida Herwitz Charitable Trust, 5 December 2000, lot 103
T. Sokolowski, Contemporary Indian Art from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Family Collection, The Grey Art Gallery, New York, 1985, illustration p. 62
R. Cornu (ed.), Coups de Coeur, Geneva, 1987, illustration p. 91
A. Vajpeyi, ed., Sayed Haider Raza, Mapin Publishing in association with The Raza Foundation, Ahmedabad, 2023, illustration p. 268
This work will be included in a revised edition of SH RAZA, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II (1972 - 1989) by Anne Macklin on behalf of The Raza Foundation, New Delhi (image ref SR4582)
New York, The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, Contemporary Indian Art from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Family Collection, 9 December 1985 – 25 January 1986
Lewisburg, Center Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Contemporary Indian Art from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Family Collection, 7 February – 22 March 1986
Burlington, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Contemporary Indian Art from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Family Collection, 3 April – 25 May 1986
Geneva, Halles de l’Ile, Coups de Coeur, 1 – 22 July 1987