Lot 266: Himmat Shah (b. 1933)

Head
Signed and editioned bottom right: Himmat Shah 6/9
Bronze
18 1/2 in. (47 cm.) high

Gujarati artist Himmat Shah believes that form often evolves with the accumulation of technical expertise. In a series of nearly identical heads executed in a range of materials, Shah experiments with medium, painstakingly manipulating the clay, paper or bronze. His geometric aesthetic, aroused in part by Modernists such as Brancusi, Picasso and Modigliani, lend Shah's Head series both the spare and decorative qualities of tribal art and the sophisticated simplicity of minimalism.