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View from Malabar Hill, Bombay, India, Dinodia Mumbai Photos
This unusually large watercolour painted by Raza during
his early years as an artist, won the Gold Medal at the
Bombay Art Society’s Diamond Jubilee exhibition in
December 1948. Raza was awarded the Gold Medal
for best work in this exhibition for this and three other
watercolour landscapes. It also won a money prize for
“best local landscape in water‒colour.” The Weber family
recalls that Mr. Weber, who had encouraged Raza to paint
the scene of the Chowpatty Bay as seen fromMalabar Hill,
later convinced the artist to sell him the painting as it was
not for sale at the exhibition.
PROPERTY FROM THE WEBER FAMILY COLLECTION, SWITZERLAND
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S H RAZA
(1922 ‒ 2016)
Bombay from Malabar Hill
Signed and dated 'S.H.RAZA 48' (lower right)
1948
Gouache on paper
23.5 x 35.25 in (59.5 x 89.4 cm)
Rs 15,00,000 ‒ 20,00,000
$ 22,390 ‒ 29,855
PROVENANCE:
Acquired from Bombay Art Society in December 1948
Emil Weber collection, Basel
Thence by descent
Heinz Weber, Basel and Rosemarie Herbrand‒Weber, Munich
EXHIBITED:
Diamond Jubilee Exhibition
, Bombay:
Bombay Art Society, December 1948
PUBLISHED:
Manu Thacker and G
Venkatachalam,
Present‒day Painters
of India
, Bombay: Sudhangshu
Publications, circa1950s, pl. 11
(illustrated)
Rizio Yohannan Raj, “From View to
vision,”
Frontline
, 2 September 2016,
online (illustrated)
The present lot illustrated in Manu Thacker and G Venkatachalam eds.,
Present‒day Painters of India
, Bombay: Sudhangshu Publications, 1950
Above and Left: Bombay Art Society's exhibition catalogue announcing
S H Raza as the winner of the gold medal for the present lot.
Reproduced from
Diamond Jubilee Exhibition
, Bombay: Bombay Art Society,
December 1948, pp. 9, 10, 17