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Lot 19 Details
Summer Online Auction 26-27 June 2024
a) UntitledSigned and dated 'Raiba/...
View Dimensions b) UntitledSigned and dated 'Raiba/ 85' (lower left)1985Reverse painting on glass11.25 x 8 in (28.5 x 20.5 cm)
Winning bid $8,675 Rs 7,20,000 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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Lot 50 Details
Moonlit Night
Oil on jute
29.25 x 44.75 in
Winning bid $21,687 Rs 18,00,000 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
Lot 106 Details
Winter Online Auction 13-14 December 2023
View Dimensions b) Untitled Signed and dated 'Raiba/ 3/5/94' (upper right)1994Reverse painting on glass laid on paper pasted on board11.5 x 9.25 in (29.5 x 23.5 cm)
Lot 18 Details
Summer Online Auction: Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art 28-29 June 2023
Shark Hunting
21 x 26 in
Winning bid $7,067 Rs 5,76,000 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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Lot 15 Details
Absolute Tuesdays 15 July 2025
a) Untitled (Amarnath)Signed and...
View Dimensions b) Untitled (Amarnath)Signed and dated 'Raiba 59' (lower right)1959Charcoal on paper12.5 x 15.75 in (31.5 x 40 cm)
Winning bid $6,353 Rs 5,40,000 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
Lot 5 Details
Absolute Tuesdays 2 June 2020
Untitled
28 x 20 in
Winning bid $8,705 Rs 6,44,160 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
ABSOLUTE TUESDAYS 21 April 2020
Old Church With Male
19.5 x 14.5 in
Winning bid $3,362 Rs 2,48,760 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
ABSOLUTE TUESDAYS | THE YEAR-END SALE 18-19 December 2018
Oil on jute pasted on stretcher bar
9.75 x 8.75 in
Winning bid $3,258 Rs 2,28,060 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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Born in Bombay in 1922 A A Raiba displayed an instinct for art and poetry from a young age. He enrolled at the Sir J J School of Arts in 1942 where he studied miniature painting techniques. Raiba subsequently joined the Progressive Artists' Group in Bombay. Between 1957 and 1959 he went to Kashmir
A A Raiba was a versatile artist who worked in a range of media that included paper glass canvas and jute. His work was often based on the fishing ...into the coastal beauty of a fishing village. Raiba manages to create layers of depth with the moored boats in the foreground and the trees buildings
This painting evokes the coastal beauty of a fishing village. Raiba was born into a middle-class Konkani Muslim community and his interest ...net over the horizon. Raiba captures a mood of isolation in this depiction of a fishing community bound by empty shores and sea and a darkening sky
Scenes of a rustic village life are beautifully detailed in lots 82 and 84. Raiba's calligraphic skills translate seamlessly into contours to define forms and create movement. The gentle bends of boughs are mirrored in the garments draped around the women creating rhythm. Raiba's study
Like many of India's leading modernists Raiba found a mentor in art critic Walter Langhammer who advised him to explore India in order to discover his own pictorial language. Raiba travelled across the country finding inspiration in both architecture and nature. He used jute as a support for some
A A Raiba an early member of the Progressive Artists' Group was born in Bombay in 1922 and enrolled at the Sir J J School of Arts in 1942 where he studied miniature painting techniques. He went to Kashmir between 1957 and 1959 and the valley "informed a substantial part of Raiba's art practice. He
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