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SAYED HAIDER RAZA LOT WITHDRAWN , BARBARA INDIA, 1922 - DELHI INDIA, 2016 Naga (Snake) Acrylic on canvas 200 x 100 cm From the mandala, he borrows the concentric circles and the bright colours, from the banner, the format and its inscription, from the easel painting finally the oil technique. This work of art, with its vertically stretched format, has a legend written in Hindi: 'Jivanka perh aur naga prakati', or in French 'Arbre de vie et nature du serpent'. This symbolic work by Sayed Haider Raza is not meant to be illustrative. There is no need to look too hard for the shapes of the tree or the snake, even if the concentric circles would allow the silhouette to be rendered. However, it is the colours that in their progression lead to the top of the work towards the light and the white star. We thus find the three symbolic colours that appear on the Indian flag: saffron yellow for courage, white for peace and truth and green for faith and prosperity. But beyond the symbolism, Raza is also in a formal research inherited from abstraction where colours and forms express feelings, states of mind. Sayed Haider Raza (1922 - 2016) is a contemporary Indian painter. He is the founder of the Progressive artist group. Trained at the Nagour School of Fine Arts and then at the Sir J.J. School of arts in Bombay. Thanks to a scholarship offered by the Indian and French governments, in 1950, he left to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and discovered Western techniques. He was awarded the Critics' Prize in 1956, the first time it had been awarded to a foreign artist. After a first solo exhibition in 1958 at the Lara Vincy Gallery in Paris, he exhibited throughout the world from Venice to Sao Paulo and New Delhi. The artist gradually gained international recognition as an abstract landscape artist. Raza's abstract geometric painting takes on a more spiritual aspect. Colour plays an essential role in his work, inherited in particular from his Indian culture, which is marked by symbolism. Close to the mandalas, his works are inspired by the Indian metaphysical thought currents drawing from the circle energy and creativity. Provenance: Private collection Signatur: Signed and certified on the back