Tyeb Mehta was born in 1925 and passed away in 2009. He had a Diploma in Painting from Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai. His important exhibitions include: Pioneers of Modernism (2013), Sovereign FZE, Dubai; Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India (2011), San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose; Modernist Art from India: Approaching Abstraction (2012), Rubin Museum of Art, New York; Manifestations VI (2011), Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi; Solo show (1998), Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; Celebrations (1996), Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; Solo show (1968), Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London; Solo show (1962), Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford. His important group exhibitions include: Progressive to Altermodern: 62 Years of Indian Modern Art (2009), Grosvenor Gallery, London; Multiple Modernities: India, 1905-2005 (2008), Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA. His international participations include: Armory Show (2009), New York presented by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and the First Triennale (1968), India; National Exhibition (1965), New Delhi.

WORK

Falling Figure
by Tyeb Mehta
Oil on Canvas
1987

Mahisasura
by Tyeb Mehta
Acrylic on canvas
1997

ESSAYS

Fire In The Wind

by Roshan Shahani

Bodies in a playhouse. Women and transvestite actors, exalted in the sway and thrust of dance, stoke the chill, raise the erotic, keel into the coils of the circle, the arc, the frenzied curve...steering through conflict.

Continuities of movement are opened out on colour-plane ecology - flower petals,

Tyeb Mehta

Fire In The Wind

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