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S.H.Raza’s Death: Sunset of India’s ‘Progressives’
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S.H.Raza’s Death: Sunset of India’s ‘Progressives’

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Jul 25, 2016
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India has lost one of its greatest modern painters with the death at 94 of Syed Haidar Raza. He was a leading member of the Bombay-based Progressives Artists’ Group of the late 1940s and 1950s that now dominates the top end of the Indian art market, and his passing marks the gradual closing of a chapter in the country’s post-independence art history.

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