Lot 47: Untitled

Himmat Shah (B. 1933) Untitled incised 'HIMMAT' (near base on the reverse) bronze 22 x 8 x 11in. (56 x 20.5 x 28cm.) Edition 6/9

Gallery Threshold, New Delhi.
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner.

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, TEXAS

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
Gujarati artist Himmat Shah believes that form often evolves with the accumulation of technical expertise. In a series of 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.