Signed ‘Prabha, 93’ lower right; inscribed ‘Prabha Shah – Stones and Clouds, 12×12’ with additional markings verso.
Sizes:
Frame: 38.5 × 38.5 cm | 15.2 × 15.2 in
Artwork: 30.5 × 30.5 cm | 12 × 12 in
Prabha Shah’s Stones and Clouds (1993) is a poetic exploration of the dialogue between nature and abstraction. With delicate brushwork, Shah captures the tension between the solidity of stone and the fluidity of air. The surface of the painting, layered with soft ochres, muted greens and whites, is like watching the slow dissolving of form into atmosphere.
Oil on canvas, this piece shows Shah’s control and spontaneity. Her hand is both deliberate and organic, light and shadow dance across the composition. The layering of colour suggests movement in stillness – a meditation on permanence and transience where every mark feels deliberate and natural.
Beyond its beauty Stones and Clouds is the spiritual sensitivity that is Prabha Shah’s hallmark. Known for her contemplative approach to abstraction, Shah brings an emotional quietness to her work, inviting the viewer into a space of introspection. Here the boundary between the material and the metaphysical dissolves and the painting becomes not just an image but an experience – a gentle meeting of earth and sky, of weight and lightness.
Néo Enchères, Paris, 12 June 2025, Lot 15.
Good vintage condition with some signs of wear. Framed.
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Prabha Shah is an Indian modernist painter who paints the emotional and visual beats of her homeland. Inspired by the colours and textures of Rajasthan, she turns landscapes, streets and people of India into poetic compositions full of warmth and longing. Her work is a dialogue between memory and reality where colour is language and emotion – an instrument to express nostalgia, love and introspection.
As she herself says, “There’s a central theme to my work: India, or more specifically Rajasthan, in colours. Cities, streets, people, desert depictions fading fast, everything I love and miss.” For Shah, painting is a way to be close to the beauty and pain of things that cannot be possessed – “things that hurt us but we insist on desiring and loving in a special way”. Through this balance of form and feeling her work is about the permanence of cultural identity and the impermanence of human emotion.
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