Property from a Private Collection
Sayed Haider Raza
1922-2016
Ville Provençale
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated ‘RAZA ‘56’ lower right
Bearing distressed labels on reverse:
‘NOM - RAZA / PRENOM - SAYED / ADRESSE - Galerie Lara Vincy - / 47 rue de Seine, / Paris, 6e, France. / "VILLE PROVENÇALE"’
‘XXVIII. Biennale Internazionnale d’Arte / di Venezia - 1956 / 921’
104.7 x 200.4 cm. (41 ¼ x 78 ⅞ in.)
Painted in 1956
Provenance
Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
Private French Collection
Cornette de Saint Cyr, Contemporary Art, 23 October 2010, lot 1
Exhibited
Venice, XXVIII Venice Biennale, 1 June - 1 October 1956
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, XXVIII Venice Biennale, Venice, 1956, p. 266
A. Vajpeyi, Raza: Text-Interview-Poetry, Ravi Kumar, Paris, 2002, unpaginated (illustrated)
Y. Dalmia, Sayed Haider Raza: The Journey of an Iconic Artist, Harper Collins, India, 2020, unpaginated (illustrated)
Exhibition catalogue, Zamin: Homelands, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai, 2022, p. 46 (illustrated)