
Priya Singh
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Property from a private collection, UK.
Acquired from Galerie Matatasso, Nice.
Raza arrived in Paris in 1950 from Bombay (now Mumbai) to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. Immersed in the city's artistic avant-garde, he became, in 1956, the first non-French recipient of the Prix de la Critique. An Indian-born artist who spent the greater part of his career in France, he began with expressionist landscapes before evolving toward a disciplined geometric abstraction. From the 1970s, Raza embraced a symbolic vocabulary rooted in Indian philosophy, most notably the bindu, the primordial dot, alongside elemental forms and colours drawn from spiritual tradition.
In this lithograph, the artist combines vibrant tones of orange and yellow with bold red and black forms, creating a luminous and dynamic play of colour and shape. The title L'Été, Summer, underscores Raza's harmonious use of colour and abstraction, evoking the warmth and radiance of a summer evening.