Property from a Private Collection
Sayed Haider Raza
1922-2016
Croix sous l’orage
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 'RAZA '57' upper right
Bearing Montreal Museum of Fine Arts label: '521 Box No. I-84 / For Biennale' on the stretcher
129.3 x 161 cm. (50 ⅞ x 63 ⅜ in.)
Painted in 1957
Provenance
Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
Millon & Cornette de Saint Cyr, Contemporary Art, 21 December 2009, Paris, lot 28
Exhibited
Paris, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Palais de Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan, Biennale 57, May 1957
Paris, Galerie Lara Vincy, Raza, 18 April - 15 May 1958
Montreal, Galerie Dresdnere, RAZA: Peintures et Gouaches, 5 - 19 May 1959
Literature
R. Cogniat, Le Peinture: Les Jeux Sont Faits’, Prisme des Arts, Paris, no. 11, 1957, unpaginated (illustrated)
Exhibition catalogue, Biennale 57, 1957, p. 54 (illustrated)
Exhibition catalogue, Raza, Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris, 1958, unpaginated (illustrated)
Exhibition catalogue, RAZA: Peintures et Gouaches, Galerie Dresdnere, 1959, unpaginated, (illustrated)
M. Anand, ed., Raza, Sadanga Publications, Vakil & Sons, Bombay, 1959, unpaginated (illustrated)
A. Vajpeyi, Raza: Text-Interview-Poetry, Ravi Kumar, Paris, 2002, unpaginated (illustrated)
M. Imbert, RAZA: An Introduction to His Painting, Rainbow Publishers, Noida, 2003, p. 37 (illustrated)
A. Bonfand, Raza, Editions de la Différence, Paris, 2008, p. 63 (illustrated)