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PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN, MUMBAI
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A A RAIBA
(1922 ‒ 2016)
Golden Dusk
Signed and dated ‘ Raiba 98’ (upper right): inscribed, signed and
dated ‘ GOLDEN DUSK / Raiba 98 / VIRAR’ (on the reverse)
1998
Oil on jute
20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.5 cm)
Rs 5,00,000 ‒ 7,00,000
$ 7,465 ‒ 10,450
PROVENANCE:
Gallery 7, Mumbai
A A Raiba, an early member of the Progressive Artists’
Group, was born in Bombay in 1922 and enrolled at
the Sir J J School of Arts in 1942, where he studied
miniature painting techniques. He went to Kashmir
between 1957 and 1959, and the valley “informed
a substantial part of Raiba’s art practice. He drew
frequent allusions to humans, animals and folk
motifs that he witnessed in the temples of Jammu
and Himachal Pradesh. This was the period when
he shifted his focus on the imagery of landscapes,
nudes and still‒life.” (
Critical Collective
,
9 May 2016,
online) Raiba later developed an interest in the history
of his own Konkani community and the present lot
evokes the coastal beauty of a fishing village.
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A A RAIBA
(1922 ‒ 2016)
Untitled (Crucifixion)
Signed and dated ‘Raiba 64’ (lower right)
1964
Oil on canvas pasted on plywood
59 x 24 in (149.9 x 61 cm)
Rs 15,00,000 ‒ 20,00,000
$ 22,390 ‒ 29,855
PROVENANCE:
Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
EXHIBITED:
Indian Divine: Gods and Goddesses in 19
th
and 20
th
Century
, New Delhi: DAG Modern, 10 October ‒
30 November 2014
PUBLISHED:
Kishore Singh ed.,
Indian Divine: Gods and
Goddesses in 19
th
and 20
th
Century
, New Delhi:
Delhi Art Gallery, 2014, (illustrated)
A A Raiba
© A A Raiba and Clark House Initiative