"Mahishasura", a seminal work from the Mahishasura series by the famous Indian Modernist Tyeb Mehta, is one of the most expensive Indian paintings which was sold at Rs 19,78,25,000 by Christies in 2013. In this captivating composition, the proximity and palette of the wrestling intertwined bodies allow Mehta to pictorially explore his interest in a binary image. Mehta's carefully composed demon and goddess are distinctly differentiated by the use the two complementary colours, opposites, red and green which act to contrast and reinforce one another. An intense, often brutal dynamism defines Mehta’s work: Dramatic in its juxtaposition of opposites—good and evil, male and female, death and life, color against color—the work is charged with visual and symbolic tension.
About the Canvas Prints
Mahishasura by Tyeb Mehta. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto our premium processed canvases and then stretched on a white maple wooden frame (gallery wrap) or framed inside black maple (framed canvas). Your canvas print will be shipped within 4 days in "ready to frame" condition for normal rolled and "ready to hang" condition for frames and wraps with pre-attached hanging wire and/or mounting points.