Lot 17
  • 17

Sayed Haider Raza

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Sayed Haider Raza
  • Three Women
  • Bearing Chemould Gallery stamp on reverse
  • Watercolour on paper
  • 45.8 x 35.5 cm. (18 x 14 in.)

Provenance

Christie's London, 2 June 1998, lot 45

Condition

There is slight wear and light creasing in the corners of the work. Minor hairline craquelere is visible on the white garment of the child in the center. Small irregularities to the paper on the center left and very faint horizontal lines are visible towards left of the work.
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Catalogue Note

A rare early figurative painting from Raza's oeuvre, this painting is clearly influenced by the work of Amrita Sher-Gil. Sher-Gil's Group of Three Girls painted in 1935 at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi could well have been the inspiration for the current lot.