Piramal Museum of Art opens the first major exhibition of Sayed Haider Raza since his death in 2016
(Artdaily.org)

Piramal Museum of Art presents ​S.H. Raza: Traversing Terrains, the first major exhibition of the artist since his death in 2016. One of the most significant artists in Indian Modernism and a founder member of the Bombay Progressives, ​S.H. Raza’s diverse body of work is a unique amalgamation of his classical French training at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and his exposure to post-war American abstract expressionism. Raza’s works are imbued with the Indian visual language of his heritage, celebrating the country’s iconography, nature, philosophy, music and poetry. Curated by ​Vaishnavi Ramanathan​, curator and art historian, Piramal Museum of Art, and​ Ashvin E. Rajagopalan​, Director, Piramal Museum of Art, the exhibition will showcase five decades of Raza’s work from the early 1940s to the late 1990s— his early days in Mumbai, his travels around India, to v