"Untitled (Kali), 1998", a famous and the last painting in the series Kali by the Indian master Tyeb Mehta, is executed in a limited palette of olive green and brown. Here, the deity, like the artist's other figures, is born from the unfinished, intersecting lines and precisely defined fields of contrasting colour. For Mehta, Kali was both a harbinger of destruction, and a portent of the end of violence in her ability to contain and destroy ignorance and malevolence. the present lot equally illuminates the creative and destructive powers, the forgiveness and the vengeance, that her figure represents. While the Kali image is powerful and virulent, the ample maternal stomach at the same time has a nurturing function. Kali simultaneously creates as she destroys.
About the Canvas Prints
Untitled (Kali), 1998 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.