Ambadas Khobragade

Untitled

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The Surya Collection: Property from Mrs. Ute Rettberg

Ambadas Khobragade

1922 - 2012

Untitled

Oil on canvas

Signed and dated 'Ambadas 1972' on reverse

100.7 x 100.7 cm. (39 ⅝ x 39 ⅝ in.)

Painted in 1972

Acquired directly from the artist, Surya Galerie, Freinsheim

Born in 1922, Ambadas Khobragade is a celebrated non-representational Indian artist. His paintings, with their exquisite colouration and fluid lines, are decidedly non-representational and yet hold subtle echoes of the natural world.

'... the surface [of Ambadas' paintings] looks very much like a coloured relief and it is woven with small strands and skeins of tonality… It is like watching the waves in a lake on a sunny afternoon: the gentle breeze plays on them and by gravitational pull sweeps away in the direction of the wind.'

(‘Lyrical Abstraction’, Link, 18 April 1976. Courtesy Surya Archives.)