Sir J. J. School of Art alumni

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Chapters: S. H. Raza, Arun Kolatkar, Raj Thackeray, Uday Shankar, M. F. Husain, Abid Surti, Tyeb Mehta, Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Jatin Das, Bhanu Athaiya, Kalidas Shrestha, Akbar Padamsee, Dadasaheb Phalke, Abdur Rahman Hye, Amol Palekar, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art, Francis Newton Souza, Homai Vyarawalla, Jitish Kallat, Pran Kumar Sharma, Atul Dodiya, Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar, John Fernandes, M. V. Dhurandhar, B. Prabha, Sadanand Bakre, R.Verman, R. D. Raval, A. A. Raiba. Excerpt: Syed Haider Raza Alias S.H. Raza (born 22 February 1922) is an eminent Indian artist who has lived and worked in France since 1950, but maintains strong ties with India. His works are mainly abstracts in oil or acrylic, with a very rich use of color, replete with icons from Indian cosmology as well as its philosophy. He was awarded the Padma Shri and Fellowship of the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1981 and Padma Bhushan in 2007. He became India's priciest modern artist on June 10, 2010 when a seminal work, 'Saurashtra' by the 88-year-old sold for Rs 16.42 crore ($3,486,965) at a Christie's auction. Syed Haider Raza was born 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. 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, becoming the first non-French artist to receive the honour. Syed Haider Raza, has his first solo show in 1946 at Bombay Art Society Salon, and was awarded the Silver Medal of the society. His work evolved from painting expressionistic landscapes to abstract ones. From his fluent water colours of landscapes and townscapes executed in the early 40's he moved towards a more expressive language painting landscapes of the mind. 1947 proved to be a very important year for him, as first his mother died, and this was also the year when he co-founded the revolutionary Bombay P