A full page, at the very beginning, carries an arresting photograph of Sayed Haider Raza. We see a young Raza, somewhere in the early 1950s, sitting with his hands clasped around his raised left knee, apparently photographed in that reflective moment, with a painted canvas on the easel.
Spanning the Art Trajectory of Raza the Modernist
Nuzhat Kazmi
SAYED HAIDER RAZA: MONOGRAPH IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION ‘S.H. RAZA (1922-2016)’, CELEBRATING S.H. RAZA CENTENARY AT THE CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS by Edited by Ashok Vajpeyi. Essays by Yashodhara Dalmia, Roobina Karode, Ashvin E. Rajagopalan, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Sinha, Ashok Vajpeyi Mapin Publishing in association with The Raza Foundation, 2023, 296 pp., INR 3500.00
December 2023, volume 47, No 12