Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009)

Professions: Painter; Sculptor

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  Tyeb Mehta (b. 1925)

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  Tyeb Mehta (b. 1925) , Falling Figure with Bird Acrylic on canvas

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  TYEB MEHTA (B. 1925)

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  TYEB MEHTA (B. 1925)

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Tyeb Mehta Biography

(b Kapadvanj, Gujarat, 26 July 1925). Indian painter, sculptor and film maker. He studied painting from 1947 to 1952 at the Sir Jamshetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art, Bombay, where he became acquainted with AKBAR PADAMSEE and was a close associate of the painters in the Progressive Artists’ Group. In 1954 he visited London and Paris for four months, then returned to India to devote himself to painting and sculpture. He took part in several group exhibitions and held his first solo exhibition of drawings, paintings and sculptures at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, in 1959. From 1959 to 1965 he lived and worked in London, exhibiting his paintings at the Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford (1962), among other locations. From 1965 to 1968 he lived in Delhi and in 1968 visited New York on a fellowship from the J. D. Rockefeller III Fund. By that time he was an acknowledged figure in contemporary Indian art. His paintings of the 1970s include Diagonal (oil on canvas, 1.75*1.75 m, 1973; New Delhi, N.G. Mod. A.) and The Gesture No. 3 (oil on canvas, 1.15*0.90 m, 1977; New Delhi, N.G. Mod. A.). He worked in an expressionist manner with some recurring motifs such as the falling figure. In the 1980s he taught at the Vishua-Bharati University, Shantiniketan, West Bengal. With regard to his primary influences, he commented: ‘In my case what happened was that I came into contact with minimal paintings and also Barnett Newman, whose work influenced me a lot’ (Bickelmann and Ezekiel, 1987).

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