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SH Raza
  • Birth Name:
    Syed Haider Raza
  • Date of Birth:
    February 22, 1922
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Pisces
  • Place of Birth:
    Babaria, Madhya Pradesh, India
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    Indian
  • Education:
    Nagpur School of Art, Nagpur (1939-43)
    Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay (1943-47)
    École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSB-A) in Paris

Family

SH Raza
  • Father:
    Sayed Mohammed Razi
  • Spouse:
    Janine Mongillat

Career

SH Raza

Trivia

SH Raza
  • Janine died on April 5, 2002 in Paris.
  • Married in 1959, and at the request of her mother not to leave France, Raza chose to remain.
  • Janine Mongillat, was his fellow student at Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris and later became a well-known artist and sculptor.
  • Has spoken of our collective anguish during and after Partition, "On the one side there was a national tragedy.
  • After his high school, he studied further at the Nagpur School of Art, Nagpur (1939-43).
  • His work took another leap in 2000, when he began to express his increasingly deepened insights and thoughts on Indian spiritual, and created works around the Kundalini, Nagas and the Mahabharat.
  • 1947 proved to be an very important year for him, as first his mother died, and this was also the year when he co-founded the revolutionary Bombay Progressive Artists' Group (PAG) (1947-1956).
  • His work evolved from painting expressionistic landscapes to abstract ones.
  • Has his first solo show in 1946 at Bombay Art Society Salon, and was awarded the Silver Medal of the society.
  • At a Dec 2006 auction, a painting by Raza reportedly sold for US $1.4 million.

Biography

SH Raza
Last Updated: Saturday, May 16, 2009

Syed Haider Raza was born on February 22 , 1922 in Babaria , Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh, to Sayed Mohammed Razi, the Deputy Forest Ranger of the district and Tahira Begum and it was here that he spent his early years and took to drawing at age 12; before moving to Damoh also in Madhya Pradesh at 13, where he completed his school education from Government High School, Damoh .

After his high school, he studied further at the Nagpur School of Art, Nagpur (1939-43), followed by Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay (1943-47) , before moving to France in October 1950 to study at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSB-A) in Paris, 1950-1953 on a Govt. of France scholarship [13]. After his studies, he travelled across Europe,and continued to live and exhibit his work in Paris . He was later awarded the Prix de la critique in Paris in 1956, first non-French artist receive the honour .

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