Live Auction 15782South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art
TYEB MEHTA (1925-2009)
Lot 208 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, INDIA

TYEB MEHTA (1925-2009)

Head of a Horse

Closed21 March 2018

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USD 37,500

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TYEB MEHTA (1925-2009)
Head of a Horse
signed and dated 'Tyeb '59' (upper right)
ink on paper
22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm.)
Executed in 1959

Formerly in the collection of Bal Chhabda
Thence by descent
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

“The Chinese ink drawings that [Tyeb Mehta] executed during the 1950s reveal to us the skeleton of Tyeb’s painterly practice: sweeping, confident strokes; an occasional woodcut-like harshness, the graceful yet vigorous dance of lines of changing thickness from which both animal and human forms could be cast.” (R. Hoskote, Tyeb Mehta: Ideas Images Exchanges, New Delhi, 2005, p. 12)